Answer Key for Exercises in The Wadsworth Handbook, Concise, Third Edition Chapter 1 Understanding Purpose and Audience Exercise 1 (pg. 13-14)
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Exercise 33.2 (pg. 289) 1. “Kilroy was here” and “Women and children first” are two expressions Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations attributes to Anon. 2. C; indirect quotation 3. “The answer, my friend,” Bob Dylan sang, “is blowin’ in the wind.” 4. The novel was a real thriller, complete with spies and counterspies, mysterious women, and exotic international chases. 5. The sign said, “Road liable to subsidence”; it meant that we should look out for potholes. 6. One of William Blake’s best-known lines—“To see a world in a grain of sand”—opens his poem “Auguries of Innocence.” 7. In James Thurber’s short story “The Catbird Seat,” Mrs. Barrows annoys Mr. Martin by asking silly questions like “Are you tearing up the pea patch?” “Are you scraping the bottom of the pickle barrel?” and “Are you lifting the oxcart out of the ditch?” 8. “I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse,” promised the godfather in Mario Puzo’s novel. 9. What did Timothy Leary mean by “Turn on, tune in, drop out”? 10. George, the protagonist of Bernard Malamud’s short story “A Summer’s Reading,” is something of an underachiever. Chapter 34 Using Other Punctuation Marks Exercise 34.1 (pg. 291) 1. Books about the late John F. Kennedy include the following: A Hero for Our Time; Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye; One Brief Shining Moment; and JFK: Reckless Youth. 2. Only one task remained: to tell his boss he was quitting. 3. The story closed with a familiar phrase: “And they all lived happily ever after.” 4. The sergeant requested [delete colon] reinforcements, medical supplies, and more ammunition. 5. She kept only four souvenirs: a photograph, a matchbook, a theater program, and a daisy pressed between the pages of William Shakespeare: The Complete Works. Exercise 34.2 (pg. 293) 1. Tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, lilies—all of these flowers grow from bulbs. 2. St. Kitts and Nevis—two tiny island nations—are now independent after 360 years of British rule. 3. “But it’s not—” She paused and reconsidered her next words. 4. He considered several different majors—history, English, political science, and business— before deciding on journalism. 5. The two words added to the Pledge of Allegiance in the 1950s—“under God”— remain part of the Pledge today. Exercise 34.3 (pg. 294) 1. During the Great War (1914–1918), Britain censored letters written from the front lines. 2. Those who lived in towns on the southern coast (like Dover) could often hear the mortar shells across the channel in France. 3. Wilfred Owen wrote his most famous poem (“Dulce et Decorum Est”) in the trenches of France. 4. The British uniforms (with bright red tabs right at the neck) were responsible for many British deaths. 5. It was difficult for the War Poets (as they are now called) to return to writing about subjects other than the horrors of war. Exercise 34.4 (pg. 297) Answers will vary. Some possibilities follow. This is a good exercise to discuss in connection with a research paper assignment. Students must determine what information is essential here and must be prepared to explain their choices. An additional instruction might incorporate part of the quotation into a hypothetical research paper paragraph. 1. “When I was eighteen [. . .] my mother told me that when out with a young man I should always leave a half-hour before I wanted to.” 2. “When I was eighteen or thereabouts, [. . .] I recognized the advice as sound, and exactly the same rule applies to research.” 3. “One must stop before one has finished [. . .].” 4. “The most important thing about research is to know when to stop. [. . .] When I was eighteen or thereabouts, my mother told me that when out with a young man I should always leave a half-hour before I wanted to.” Exercise 34.5 (pg. 297) 1. Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) made the following statement: “I can live for two months on a good compliment.” 2. Liza Minelli, the actress/singer who starred in several films, is the daughter of Judy Garland. (For emphasis, dashes may replace the commas.) 3. Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates—all these are located on the Arabian Peninsula. 4. John Adams (1735–1826) was the second president of the United States; John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) was the sixth. 5. The sign said, “No tresspassing [sic].” 6. Checkmate—a term derived from the Persian phrase meaning “the king is dead”— announces victory in chess. (Parentheses are another option.) 7. The following people were present at the meeting: the president of the board of trustees, three trustees, and twenty reporters. 8. Before the introduction of the potato in Europe, the parsnip was a major source of carbohydrates—in fact, it was a dietary staple. 9. In this well-researched book (Crime Movies [NewYork: Norton, 1980]), Carlos Clarens studies the gangster genre in film. 10. I remember reading—though I can’t remember where—that Upton Sinclair sold plots to Jack London. Chapter 35 Improving Spelling Exercise 35.1 (pg. 303) 1. rec ei pt 2. var ie ty 3. caff ei ne 4. ach ie ve 5. kal ei doscope 6. misch ie f 7. ef fic ie nt 8. v ei n 9. spec ie s 10. suf fic ie nt Exercise 35.2 (pg. 304) surprising surely forcible manageable duly outrageous serviceable awful shaming shameless Exercise 35.3 (pg. 305) journeying studied carrying shyly studying sturdiness merriment likelihood plentiful supplier Chapter 36 Knowing When to Capitalize Exercise 36.1 (pg 312) 1. Two of the Brontë sisters wrote Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, nineteenth-century novels that are required reading in many English classes that study Victorian literature. 2. It was a beautiful day in the spring—it was April 15, to be exact—but all Ted could think about was the check he had to write to the Internal Revenue Service and the bills he had to pay by Friday.
Christmas and Easter; and two full months (July and August) in the summer. 9. The sociology syllabus included the books Beyond the Best Interests of the Child, Regulating the Poor, and A Welfare Mother; in anthropology we were to begin by studying the Stone Age; and in geology we were to focus on the Mesozoic Era. 10. Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize include Lech Walesa, former leader of the Polish trade union Solidarity; the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; and Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa. Chapter 37 Using Italics Exercise 37.1 (pg. 315) 1. I said Carol, not Darryl. 2. A deus ex machina, an improbable device used to resolve the plot of fictional work, is used in Charles Dickens’s novel Oliver Twist. 3. He dotted every i and crossed every t. 4. The Metropolitan Opera’s production of Carmen was a tour de force for the principal performers. 5. C 6. Antidote and anecdote are often confused because their pronunciations are similar. 7. Hawthorne’s novels include Fanshawe, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, and The Scarlet Letter. 8. Words like mailman, policeman, and fireman are rapidly being replaced by nonsexist terms like letter carrier, police officer, and firefighter. 9. A classic black tuxedo was considered de rigueur at the charity ball, but Jason preferred to wear his dashiki. 10. Thomas Mann’s novel Buddenbrooks is a Bildungsroman. Chapter 38 Using Hyphens Exercise 38.1 (pg. 318) 1. One of the restaurant’s blue-plate specials is chicken-fried steak. 2. Virginia and Texas are both right-to-work states. 3. He stood on tiptoe to see the near-perfect statue, which was well hidden by the security fence. 4. The five-and-ten-cent store had a self-service make-up counter and many up-to-the minute gadgets. 5. The so-called Saturday night special is opposed by pro-gun-control groups. 6. He ordered two all-beef patties with special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, and onions on a sesame seed bun. 7. The material was extremely thought provoking, but it hardly presented any earth-shattering conclusions. 8. The Dodgers-Phillies game was rained out, so the long-suffering fans left for home. 9. Bone-marrow transplants carry the risk of what is known as graft-versus-host reaction. 10.The state-funded child care program was considered a highly desirable alternative to family day care. Chapter 39 Using Abbreviations Exercise 39.1 (pg. 321) 1. The committee meeting, attended by representatives from Action for Children’s Television (ACT) and the National Organization for Women (NOW), Senator Putnam, and the president of ABC, convened at 8 a.m. on Monday, February 24, at the YWCA on Germantown Avenue. 2. An economics professor was suspended after he encouraged his students to speculate on securities issued by a corporation under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 3. Benjamin Spock, the MD who wrote Baby and Child Care, is a respected doctor known throughout the USA. 4. C [If this sentence can be defined as “technical writing” 5. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), led the famous Selma, Alabama, march. 6. William Golding, a novelist from the United Kingdom, won the Nobel Prize in literature. 7. The adult education center, financed by a major computer corporation, offers courses in basic subjects like introductory biology and technical writing as well as teaching HTML and XML. 8. All the fraternity brothers agreed to write to President Dexter appealing their disciplinary probation under Chapter 4, Section 3, of the Inter-Fraternity Council constitution. 9. A four-quart (that is, one-gallon) container is needed to hold the salt solution. 10. According to Professor Morrison, all those taking the exam should bring two sharpened no. 2 pencils to the St. Joseph’s University auditorium on Saturday. Chapter 40 Using Numbers Exercise 40.1 (pg. 324) 1. C (1984 is a book title.) 2. C 3. In a control group of 247 patients, almost 3 out of 4 suffered serious adverse reactions to the new drug. 4. Before the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, slaves were counted as three-fifths of a person. 5. The intensive membership drive netted 2,608 new members and additional dues of more than five thousand dollars. 6. They had only two choices: either they could take the yacht at Pier 14, or they could return home to the penthouse at 27 Harbor View Drive. 7. C 8. Approximately 300,000 schoolchildren in District 6 were given hearing and vision examinations between May 3 and June 26. 9. The United States was drawn into World War II by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. 10. An upper-middle-class family can spend more than 250,000 dollars to raise each child up to age eighteen. Chapter 41 Writing a Research Paper Exercise 41.1 (pg. 332) Answers will vary. It is useful to conduct individual conferences with students to discuss their topics. Ask students to bring their research notebooks so that they may make notes during your discussion. When assigning a research paper, emphasize the importance of preliminary research. If your students wait until the last minute to do research, the results can be disastrous. The student should have a workable topic—and know that it is workable—very early in the process. Exercise 41.2 (pg. 335) Answers will vary. You will probably want to check the students’ work. Exercise 41.3 (pg. 336) Answers will vary. You will probably want your students to submit their tentative thesis statements to you for approval. It takes practice to develop a concise statement of purpose. Sometimes after students reread their notes and rearrange their ideas, they produce thesis statements that are more accurate and more focused. Exercise 41.4 (pg. 341) Answers will vary. Some teachers check note cards and require photocopies of text to check paraphrases against sources. To be sure your students understand paraphrasing before they write their research papers, you may wish to do this as well. Exercise 41.5 (pg. 341) Answers will vary. You will probably want students to submit thesis statements for approval. Exercise 41.6 (pg. 344) Answers will vary. You will probably want to check the students’ work. Exercise 41.7 (pg. 347) Answers will vary. Exercise 41.8 (pg. 350) Answers will vary. Exercise 41.9 (pg. 351) Answers will vary. Chapter 42 Using and Evaluating Library Sources Exercise 42.1 (pg. 359) Sending all your students to the library to do the same exercise will strain your library’s resources without helping students. Assigning them to do this exercise in groups will be more effective. You may wish to encourage students to try to find the information in more than one source. 1. Book Review Index 2. Consumer Information Catalog or Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Documents will list available publications. 3. Dictionary of American Biography, Encyclopedia Americana, Webster’s Biographical Dictionary 4. Catalog 5. The Encyclopedia of Associations lists organizations by subject; there are several with the word wolves in the title. 6. Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedic Dictionary of Physics, Encyclopedia of Physics 7. There is a Directory of Lobbyists, but the Congressional Quarterly Directory of Lobbyists is probably more recent and more complete. 8. Who’s Who 9. Catalog 10. The U.S. Government Manual Exercise 42.2 (pg. 361) 1. Old but classic source. Information may establish role of women before they were given right to vote. Note importance of author in history of women’s suffrage. 2. Note author’s feminist bias. Also note popular source may not be appropriate. Essay may also be dated. 3. Acceptable source for basic facts. 4. Although such popular sources may not be suitable for a research paper, examples may be useful. Note possible feminist bias of author. Chapter 43 Using and Evaluating Internet Sources Chapter 44 Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting Sources Exercise 44.1 (pg. 377) Answers will vary. Exercise 44.2 (pg. 381) Answers will vary. Exercise 44.3 (pg. 381) Answers will vary. Chapter 45 Synthesizing Sources Exercise 45.1 (pg. 385) Answers will vary. Exercise 45.2 (pg. 386) Answers will vary Chapter 46 Avoiding Plagiarism Exercise 46.1 (pg. 393) Answers will vary, but the work is thoroughly plagiarized. All the following are words taken directly and must be documented: great men and great events (Gregg) ordinary people (Freedman and Gregg) slaves, concentration camp survivors, and the illiterate (Freedman) emotions (Freedman) make sense of the present (Gregg) glimpse (Gregg) likely future (Gregg) rendition of a life history (Honig) versions of an individual’s past (Honig)
asked had decided travels spent did decide spent spent shared felt believed needed had need Exercise 49.2 (pg. 477) months C C C rules C lectures C C C books Exercise 49.3 (pg. 478) The the C C C C C C C C the a C C C C C C C C Exercise 49.4 (pg. 481) The young couple seated across from Daniel at dinner the night before were newlyweds from Tokyo. The young couple and Daniel ate together with other guests of the inn at long, low tables in a large dining room with straw mat flooring. The man introduced himself immediately in English, shook Daniel’s hand firmly, and, after learning that he was not a tourist but a resident working in Osaka, gave him a business card. The man had just finished college and was working at his first real job, clerking in a bank. Even in a sweatsuit, the man looked ready for the office: chin closely shaven, bristly hair neatly clipped, nails clean and buffed. After a while he and Daniel exhausted the man’s store of English and drifted into Japanese. The man’s wife, shy up until then, took over as he fell silent. She and Daniel talked about the new popularity of hot springs spas in the countryside around the inn, the difficulty of finding good schools for the children the woman hoped to have soon, and the differences between food in Tokyo and Osaka. Her husband ate busily. From time to time she refilled her husband’s beer glass or served him radish pickles from a china bowl in the middle of the table, and then returned to the conversation. Exercise 49.5 (pg. 483) Answers will vary. Exercise 49.6 (pg. 485) delete of in on in in by In in to with Directory: academic -> assets -> sites academic -> Annual InStructional unit plan academic -> Unit: Automotive and Auto Body academic -> The Devil in the Deep Blue Sea academic -> Hurricanes and Global Warming An Alternative Point of View by academic -> Davis case study paper: to nourish or not to nourish our florida beaches? academic -> 1Compiled by John Dunne-Brady academic -> Table of Contents Economic Policy Causes and Consequences of the Subprime Crisis Brendan Dowling 11 academic -> United states history and geography academic -> Annotated Bibliography Grades 1-41 sites -> Voting and Participation Download 209.73 Kb. Share with your friends:
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