- Which of the following sentences is an announcement rather than a thesis statement?
Your answer:
My cousin has centered his life around becoming a professional basketball player.
Professional athletes are underworked and overpaid.
Professional athletes are a bad influence on young people.
The importance of professional athletes is the subject of this paper.
- Choose the sentence that is too broad to be a strong thesis for an essay.
Your answer:
Our family outings tend to fall into three categories.
A bicycle trip is a terrible way to spend a vacation.
Recreation is an important part of the American lifestyle.
Several steps should be taken to speed up a baseball game. d
- Choose the sentence that is too narrow to be a strong thesis for an essay.
Your answer:
There are three effective ways to housebreak a puppy.
Wild cats do not make good house pets.
When I was eight years old, I got a bird.
Some people at zoos seem less civilized than the animals.
- Which of the following sentences is too vague to be a strong thesis?
Your answer:
Living in a small town can be boring at times, but it has its advantages.
My roommate's small-town background did not prepare her for life at a large university.
People who live in small towns escape the hazards of the city.
Moving to a small town required some major adjustments in my life.
- Choose the vague term from the list below.
Your answer:
Vehicle
Wagon
Convertible
Diesel truck
- Which of the following is an addition signal?
Your answer:
such as
therefore
also
but
- Repeating a key word in a paragraph
Your answer:
can serve to remind the reader of the paragraph's main idea.
shows the reader where the most important detail is
is grammatically incorrect
is boring and should be avoided
- Which of the following are sentence-skills mistakes?
Your answer:
lack of support
vague thesis statement
weak conclusion
faulty parallelism
- Which of the following are advantages of learning how to write essays?
Your answer:
Helps you write job application letters
Improve your chances of success on written tests.
All the above
Makes you think more logically