Strategies for Clear Style
Quiz
This quiz covers the following topics: Bias-Free Language, Formal and Informal Style, Plagiarism, and Sentence Structure.
What is wrong with the following sentence?
Each student needs to submit his project by the end of this week.
- It has faulty parallelism.
- It uses gender biased language.
- It lacks pronoun agreeement.
Which of the following is preferred?
- The mailman usually comes around noon to pick up packages.
- The postman usually comes around noon to pick up packages.
- The mail carrier usually comes around noon to pick up packages.
The following sentence is free of bias:
The CBS News program has very knowlegeable weathermen. Their weathercast is always detailed and accurate.
- True
- False
When you don't know how to refer to people of a specific ethnic group, it is always best to ask members of that group what their preference is.
- True
- False
Which of the following is preferred?
- A friend of mine is a diabetic.
- A friend of mine has diabetes.
- A friend of mine suffers from diabetes.
Which of the following will be affected when you decide to use a more formal writing style?
- Sentence transitions, sentence openings
- Use of pronouns
- Vocabulary, use of contractions, use of pronouns and standard or non-standard English forms
- In-text citations, the Works Cited List or Reference List
Sentence variety helps avoid ___________ in writing.
- errors
- monotony
- wrong sentence structures
- bias
Sentence variety can be achieved by varying
- sentence types
- sentence openings
- sentence length
- all of the above
Plagiarism involves taking ideas from another author and presenting them as your own without giving proper credit to the author.
- True
- False
A lot of Internet sources don't have page numbering; these sources don't have to be cited in text or included in the Works Cisted List (MLA).
- True
- False