"The tortillas were as hot as the sun," is an example of what?
What is a simile?
100
I use this document to provide me with product information, after purchasing merchandise.
What is a consumer document.
100
True details, including results of research or surveys.
What are facts?
100
A piece of writing that restates the main idea, critical details, and the underlying message based on an original text.
What is a summary?
100
This kind of document is a resume.
What is a workplace document?
200
"Don't bury your head in the sand," is what figure of speech?
What is an idiom?
200
A resume is an example of what type of document?
What is workplace document?
200
Facts in number form.
What are statistics?
200
The statements or paragraphs that completes a piece of writing.
What is a conclusion?
200
These documents include scheldules, government publications, and Web sites.
What are public documents?
300
"This is a goldmine."
What is a metaphor?
300
A guarantee that a product will work for a specified period of time is an example of what kind of document?
What is a warranty?
300
Specific instances that illustrate reasons or facts.
What are examples?
300
A sentence or two typically near the beginning of a composition that clearly presents your main idea and purpose for writing.
What is a thesis statement?
300
These define what the document is, while these tell us what makes them unique.
What are elements and features?
400
"I was a lonely, wandering cloud," is an example of what part of speech.
What is a metaphor?
400
What is the presentation of statements supported by reasons, evidence, and examples?
What is coherence?
400
"Only one in 1,000 Americans can list all five freedoms protected by the U.S. Constitution, according to a recent survery."
What is a statistic?
400
Making cookies is easy. ____________ you need to turn on the oven. ____________ you need to measure out the ingredients. What transitions are needed to complete the sentences?
What are FIRST and NEXT?
400
The weather was hot and dry, and the wind was blowing. The sentence that would revise the faulty parallel structure.
What is "The weather was hot, dry, and windy."?
500
Jamie would rather do just about anything than go shopping, she loathed it so much. How does Jamie feel about shopping?
Jamie strongly dislikes shopping.
500
Logical texts present statements supported by what three things?
What are reasons, evidence, and examples?
500
Facts, examples, statistics, and expert opinions.
What are ways to support a proposition?
500
When following technical directions, it is a good idea to.
What is read the directions all the way through before you begin?
500
"Mr. Ramos is a retired engineer. His is our neighbor. He is an active man." The sentence revised to vary sentence beginnings.
What is "A retired engineer, our neighbor Mr. Ramos is an active man."?