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Praxis II Grammar/Writing a
Grammar/Writing
Question: Is evolution, comprehension, application or synthesis the most difficult?
Answer: Evolution/it incorporates the other thinking strategies
Question: What are the most used forms of analysis in college writing?
Answer: Comparing/Contrasting/explaining Cause/Effect Relationships and analyzing
Question: What is the most commonly used synthesis strategy in college writing?
Answer: Proposing a solution to some problems or situation
Question: Examples of the exploratory discourse aim
Answer: A white paper/opinion survey/annotated bibliography/problem solution
Question: Examples of the informative discourse aim
Answer: News & magazine articles/reports/encyclopedia articles
Grammar/Writing
Question: Juxtaposing words/phrases/sentences with opposite meaning/balancing these to add insight "That's one small step fro man, one giant step for mankind."
Answer: Antithesis
Question: What is clustering illusion?
Answer: Cognitive bias of attributing cause/effect patterns to random/unrelated events
Question: What is an octive (8 lined) and a sestat, w/the transition from former to lttr signaling a major change?
Answer: Petrarchan Sonnet form
Question: The three Cuing System
Answer: The Syntactic/Phonological/Semantic Systems
Question: What is the study of languge used socially for communication?
Answer: Pragmatics
Grammar/Writing
Question: Piaget's term for mental constructs we form to uderstand the world
Answer: Schemata
Question: Describe fossilization
Answer: When some incorrect forms a learner of a second language has developed is not corrected over time, but becomes fixed.
Question: Name the huge shift in the phonemics of English punctuation that occurred from the 15th and 18th centuries in all plaes where English was spoken/written.
Answer: The Great Vowel Shift
Question: What is a portmanteau word/example?
Answer: Two or more words, like brunch is a blend of breakfast and lunch
Question: What is an example of clipping?
Answer: Shortening a word/ie-facsimile
Grammar/Writing
Question: What is neologism?
Answer: New words sometimes invented by people which then become parts f our vocab.
Question: Correct sequence of the writing stage
Answer: After prewriting/drafting/revising/editing/publishing
Question: Collect finished work products from a student over time, eventually assembling a portfolio of work/a more authentic assessment
Answer: Portfolio Assessment
Question: Scoring a piece of writing for overall quality/evaluating for general elements such as focus/organization/support/conventions rather than being overly concerned with individual aspect of writing.
Answer: Holistic Scoring
Question: A guide that gives examples of the levelsof typical characteristics in a piece of writing that corresponds to each available 1-5.
Answer: Scoring Rubric
Grammar/Writing
Question: In MLA when do you use "et al" in in-text citations?
Answer: When there are four or more authors
Question: What is one way to grab reader's attention in an introduction?
Answer: Cite a statistic
Question: Define voice and style
Answer: Voice-who the reader hears speaking in the writing/the way the writer uses to express his/her tone.
Style-the effect a writer creates through languages/mechanics/attitude/or the sound/impressions of the writing.
Question: Three purposes for student journals
Answer: 1. Informal record of thoughts/experiences/ and is generally kept for private use.
2. Students may be less likely to observe the formal rules of mechanics/rhetorical strategies demanded in more formal writing.
3. Evaluating students in this way is not appropriate.
Question: To best encourage students to initiate discussion within their groups, the teacher should provide what?
Answer: List of sample questions related to the text