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Course Readings II: The Sequel
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These are the two types of writers in the excerpt from Italo Calvino's book, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. (To get this answer correct, you must also describe both.)
What are the tormented writer and the productive writer?
100
This is the emotional appeal to the reader's sensibilities made by the author.
What is pathos?
100
CMS stands for this.
What is Chicago Manual Style?
100
Plagiarism is derived from this word with this meaning.
What is "plagium," meaning "an instance of kidnapping, particularly of children"?
100
According to this researcher, limits on magazine sizes would have been irrelevant in many of the past shootings, especially since five out of seven events studied included perpetrators with multiple weapons.
Who is Gary Kleck?
200
This is the conflict in "Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes."
Where is Joanie and who is "the girl"?
200
Integration of stolen or copied information into your own paper without providing citations. Inadvertent lack of citations due to ignorance or negligence is not a reasonable excuse.
What is non-attribution plagiarism?
200
This is the main difference between CMS and APA or MLA.
What is the use of footnotes and endnotes?
200
This is the definition of tone.
What is the expression of a literary speaker's attitude to his or her listener, including the author's conception of, and attitude to, the assumed social level, intelligence, and sensitivity of his or her's audience?
200
This novel was pulled off the shelves by its author.
What is Rage by Stephen King?
300
This is where the short essay "Shooting an Elephant" takes place.
What is Burma?
300
This is an argument that expresses an evaluation of a condition on the basis of aesthetics and/or morality.
What is a claim of value?
300
These are what each formatting style labels its list of sources.
What are MLA's Works Cited page, APA's References page, and CMS' Bibliography?
300
This is the fictional creation of an unpleasant imaginary world in which the ominous tendencies of our present social, political, and technological order are projected into a disastrous future culmination.
What is a dystopic story?
300
This is what is satirized by Gary Shteyngart in the excerpt from the diary of Lenny Abramov.
What is privatization of government, capitalism, immigration, lack of privacy, and/or medical/technological advancements?
400
This is how Tessie Hutchinson dies.
What is stoning as a result of being chosen in the town lottery?
400
These are the four potential ways to organize an argumentative essay.
What are 1) defending your claim through various supporting sources or points, 2) attacking an opposing viewpoint by defining the claim and methodically attacking the assumptions/points involved in the opposing claim, 3) finding a middle ground, and 4) presenting the "stock issues" or stating the problem before the solution.
400
Cite this text in CMS format for a bibliography page.
What is Welty, Eudora. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty. San Diego: Harcourt, Inc., 1980.
400
This is the type of perspective in which the reader is addressed as "you."
What is second-person perspective?
400
Several of the writers we've discussed in class so far have fought in wars, the events of which directly affected their writing. Name at least two.
Who are Italo Calvino, Tim O'Brien, J. D. Salinger, George Orwell, and Kurt Vonnegut?
500
This is the unique writing approach that Stephen King uses in his eBook, Guns.
What is a list of the series of events that occur after a mass shooting?
500
These are the two types of research papers.
What are analytical research papers and argumentative research papers?
500
Cite the following as an endnote.
What is 1. Sandra Cisneros. Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (New York: Vintage Contemporaries (or Vintage Books or Random House, Inc., 1992).
500
Unable to be explained
What is inexplicable?
500
These are two nicknames of the "Ethical Suicide Studios."
What are the "Automat," "Birdland," "Cannery," "Catbox," "De-louser," "Easy-go," "Good-by, Mother," "Happy Hooligan," "Kiss-me-quick," "Lucky Pierre," "Sheepdip," "Waring Blendor," "Weep-no-more," and "Why Worry?"