Review exercise Flashcards
When planning communications whom should the writer consider?
Both the sender and the receiver.
He would like to speak at the next Commander call to solicit volunteers to help with bass blood drives, what is the purpose for your briefing?
Persuade.
When is the problem/solution pattern of arrangement used?
If it is reasonable to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each solution.
What pattern of arrangement is well suited to discuss the evolution of the enlisted force?
CHRONOLOGICAL.
The base youth center offers a number of after school programs. Which pattern of arrangement would be most appropriate for writing an article about the programs at the you center?
Topical
Whether written or spoken, which statement as provides the necessary characteristics of an effective introduction?
Attention step, purpose statement with appeal, and an overview.
What is the purpose of your summary?
To reinforce key points.
How do you know if you have paragraph unity.
They all sentences support the main idea of topic sentence.
One purpose of a topic sentence is to do what?
Introduce the paragraph.
What is the purpose of a Major support sentence?
Define, explain, or prove the topic sentence.
What is the purpose of the closing sentence?
To summarize the paragraph and help the reader move to the next paragraph.
What is the purpose of paragraph coherence?
To allow the reader to see relationship between sentences.
What is the best way to achieve paragraph coherence?
Use pronouns, related key words and be consistent with verb and voice.
Which of the following is considered to be a plural noun and therefore would need a plural verb? Each, several, everyone, anybody.
Several
Which statement follows the rule for proper pronoun reference? #1 Joe reads books because it is entertaining. #2 Joe reads books because they are entertaining.
2
