English 103 - Composition and Critical Thinking » Fall 2020 » Reading Strategies: Annotating Quiz

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Question #1
Annotating a passage can best be described as _______.
A.   paraphrasing the content
B.   making notes in a text
C.   synthesizing the key ideas
D.   outlining to see the organization
Question #2
Directions: For the following question, use the annotated excerpt from Michael J. Sandel’s Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?, which appears in CH 02 of The Norton Field Guide to Writing. The first paragraph is annotated with a sticky note in order to _______.
A.   make a comparison between piracy and history
B.   note a clue to the organizational pattern of the writing
C.   define what the "Purple Heart" is
D.   indicate the thesis of the text
Question #3
Directions: For the following question, use the annotated excerpt from Michael J. Sandel’s Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?, which appears in CH 02 of The Norton Field Guide to Writing. The seventh sticky note begins with the phrase "Wow" because the reader who annotated this passage _______.
A.   finds the author biased in this section
B.   is impressed with the spokesman’s quotation
C.   disagrees that vets must shed blood in order to receive a Purple Heart
D.   doesn’t understand this dense portion of the reading
Question #4
Good advice for making notes in a text is to annotate as if _______.
A.   the author can’t be taken seriously
B.   minor details are critical
C.   you are having a conversation with the author
D.   every idea is important
Question #5
Highlighting keywords, writing comments in the margin, and connecting ideas with lines or symbols are ways to _______ a passage.
A.   paraphrase
B.   summarize
C.   memorize
D.   annotate
Question #6
If you are annotating an argument, you should underline _______.
A.   the patterns in the text
B.   the words you do not know
C.   the thesis and the reasons or evidence used to support it
D.   the minor details that expand upon the main ideas
Question #7
If you are looking for meaningful patterns while annotating a text, you could best annotate the passage by _______.
A.   drawing smiley faces next to ideas that you agree with
B.   highlighting each pattern in a different color and noting questions using the same color ink
C.   marking any ideas that you find difficult to understand and that should be ignored
D.   circling words that you can use in order to paraphrase the author’s ideas
Question #8
The information that you annotate in a passage will depend on your _______.
A.   ability to paraphrase
B.   purpose
C.   reading rate
D.   style
Question #9
Which of the following is NOT a benefit of annotating a text?
A.   restating ideas in your own words
B.   forcing you to read for more than just the surface meaning
C.   creating a record of information you may want to refer to in the future
D.   reading a difficult text faster than you normally would
Question #10
You have located an excellent source from the library to use in your argumentative essay, and you need to mark the text. The best way to make annotations in this library book is to _______.
A.   use sticky notes for your annotations because they can be removed later
B.   use a highlighter because you know the library will be happy to see the book being used
C.   underline in pencil and go back and erase when you are finished
D.   fold the corners of the important pages under slightly in order to mark them

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