Chapter 4 Self-Quiz B

. Style refers to…

The way you express your ideas in writing.

How you design your document.

The number of complex terms you use.

How you dress.

. Effective paragraphs generally begin with a…

Heading 1

Topic sentence

A boldfaced word

A bullet point

. Prior to knowing what type of style to use in a technical document, what do you need to know about your readers?

If they are in a mobile environment.

If they will send the document to another co-worker.

What time they will read the document.

Their knowledge of the subject.

. In the sentence below, what grammatical element is the underlined word? "Johnny ate a big bowl of cereal for breakfast."

Agent

Verb

Subject

Both a and c.

. The sentence below is written in passive voice. Which of the following would be the active alternatively written sentence? "The paper was written carelessly by the student because he did not care."

Carelessly was the paper written by the student who didn't care.

The student wrote the paper carelessly because he did not care.

The paper was written by a student who didn't care carelessly.

The carelessly written paper was done by the uncaring student.

. Which of the following is a redundant phrase?

longitudinal study

time frame

resource utilization

absolutely complete

. Which of the following is an example of active voice?

Attempts were made by the division staff to assess the project.

The division staff attempted to assess the project.

The project was assessed by division staff.

Using sales data, the project was assessed.

. All of the following are characteristics of "good" writing, EXCEPT…

Use of concrete nouns.

Use of concrete verbs.

Use of passive voice

Use of specific sentences that clarify meaning for the reader.

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