True or false? Whatever the topic, if you write about it as you are studying, you will decrease your chances of learning it.

Is this all true? Some of the most common purposes for assigning writing from the professor’s point of view are: To help students engage as fully as possible in the course content To guide students toward the important concepts in the course To teach students how to think critically about the course content To fill up class time with meaningless busywork To help students discover their own insights on specific topics To let students demonstrate what they understand from readings and lectures To encourage independent thinking

True? If you quote, paraphrase, or summarize from another source, you must provide your reader with information about that source, such as the author’s name, the title of the book or essay, and the year it was written. Whenever you use other people’s words or ideas without giving them credit, you are plagiarizing.

True or false? To summarize, state the author’s main idea in your own words. A summary is much briefer than the original or a paraphrase. As with a direct quote, you need to furnish the details of your original source.

True or false: Work first with the content, making sure your thoughts are fully developed and organized effectively before you correct your grammar and usage errors.

Which of these is correct? Choose one: A. Both types of process analysis call for careful step-by-step thinking, but especially the first—how to do something. If you leave out even one detail, you may confuse your reader or even endanger someone’s life. Good process analysis of the second type—how something works or how something happened—can help your reader see a product or an event in a totally new light. B. Both types of process analysis call for careful step-by-step thinking, but especially the first—how to do something. It can help your reader see a product or an event in a totally new light. Good process analysis of the second type—how something works or how something happened—if you leave out even one detail, you may confuse your reader or even endanger someone’s life.

True or false: In process analysis, more than in other types of writing, the success of your essay depends on how well you know your audience. Being familiar with your audience helps you decide how much detail to include, how many examples to add, and which terms to define. Also keep in mind that your readers won’t be able to ask you questions, so if they can’t follow your explanation, they will become confused and frustrated. Whoever your audience is, clear explanations are essential.

True or false? You cannot use division and classification to choose a major and a career.

True or false: To understand effects, we look in the past for reasons that something happened. To discover causes, we look to the future for possible results of an action.

True? In order to analyze causes and effects, we break a situation into parts so we can look at the relationships between its parts and then reach conclusions that are logical and useful.