Reading and Writing Skills 11 Quiz

Why is it important to provide textual evidence?

• It makes your paragraph longer.

• It allows your reader to get the important facts from the article without reading whole thing.

• It shows that you should know what you are talking about.

• It makes your claim stronger and helps prove your point.

It is a way of giving a better explanation to show the strength and weaknesses of something through writing.

• Formulating counterclaim

• Formulating assertion

• Writing evaluative statement

• Identifying claim

Why are both claim and counterclaim essential in critical reading?

• Both help determine textual evidence

• Both needed in classroom interaction

• Readers use them in decision making

• Reading involves argumentation

Which of the following does NOT describe hypertext?

• It allows readers to access information particularly on one page of the text only.

• It permits the readers to create their own meaning out of the material given to them and learn better associatively.

• It is a tech displayed on a computer display or other electronic devices.

• It is a linear way to present information and is usually accomplished using links.

This business letter aims to prompt the reader to buy the products or services rendered.

• Follow- up Letter

• Order Letter

• Sales letter

• Commendation Letter

Which of the following presents the clearest evaluative statement?

• Every individual is blessed.

• Every individual is thoughtful.

• Thoughtful and generous individuals are highly blessed.

• The individual is highly blessed, thoughtful, and generous.

This is a type of memo that provides information needed by the readers to accurately perform directions.

• Announcement memo

• Authorization memo

• Request memo

• Instruction memo

What is the purpose of assertion?

• Express ideas clearly

• Present a fact

• Gather data

• Refute a proposition

Books and book reports, essays and research papers are all examples of _______.

• Academic Writing

• Professional Writing

• Creative Writing

• Expository Writing

What type of assertion is this "I would rather stay at home and watch movies than going to the mall?

• Evidence

• Opinion

• Assertion

• Fact