NSE 101 FINAL PREP TEST
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
Persuasive writing - Answer- Persuade, influence, convince, & inspire audience to
believe your POV on a topic with many opinions & POVs
Critical writing - Answer- Detailed assessment or evaluation of a text
Editorial writing - Answer- Opinion/perspective piece
Literature Reviews - Answer- Synthesize body of literature on a topic; summarize what
is known; combine multiple ideas into larger whole
Conversational tone - Answer- informal, fun, & engaging; 2nd POV
Professional tone - Answer- formal, respectful, serious, punctuation, full sentences
Scientific tone - Answer- impersonal, objective, facts, 3rd POV
Ironic tone - Answer- subtle, humorous, dispassionate
Critical tone - Answer- expose oppression & power inequalities
Rhetorical tone - Answer- persuasive & simplistic
Political tone - Answer- overtly convey ideology/belief
Signposts - Answer- words/phrases indicating where you are in the process of
organizing your idea (first problem, next thing, final thoughts)
Good intro = - Answer- new info + controversial ideas
Heading 1 - Answer- Centred, Bold
Heading 2 - Answer- Left, Bold
Heading 3 - Answer- Left, Italics, Bold
, Heading 4 - Answer- Indented, Bold, Ends with a Period.
Heading 5 - Answer- Indented, Bold, Italic, Ends with a Period.
Narrative citation - Answer- "author (year) says...."
In-text citation - Answer- (author's last name, publication year)
Only cite author once in a paragraph if - Answer- it's clear that the other sentences are
paraphrased
Multiple references - Answer- alphabetically diff author separated by semi-colon,
chronologically same author
Same author & same year - Answer- letter notations (Lapum 2017a, 2017b)
Direct quotes - Answer- need page numbers, "author (year) says... 'this' (p. 42)."
Quotation marks for - Answer- 40 words
Block format for - Answer- more than 40 words
if there's a grammar/spelling mistake in the quote - Answer- [sic] "your [sic] good at
this!"
Only add the year the first time if - Answer- same author in the same paragraph
No author, no date - Answer- ("Source Title," n.d.).
Red herring - Answer- sentences that distract reader from thesis
Encoding - Answer- turning thoughts into communication
Decoding - Answer- turning communication into thoughts
Noise - Answer- anything that interferes with the message
Environmental Noise - Answer- physical noise
Semantic Noise - Answer- misinterpretation when decoding/encoding
Feedback - Answer- messages sent in response to other messages
Social context - Answer- stated rules/unstated norms
Relational context - Answer- interpersonal history & type of relationship
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
Persuasive writing - Answer- Persuade, influence, convince, & inspire audience to
believe your POV on a topic with many opinions & POVs
Critical writing - Answer- Detailed assessment or evaluation of a text
Editorial writing - Answer- Opinion/perspective piece
Literature Reviews - Answer- Synthesize body of literature on a topic; summarize what
is known; combine multiple ideas into larger whole
Conversational tone - Answer- informal, fun, & engaging; 2nd POV
Professional tone - Answer- formal, respectful, serious, punctuation, full sentences
Scientific tone - Answer- impersonal, objective, facts, 3rd POV
Ironic tone - Answer- subtle, humorous, dispassionate
Critical tone - Answer- expose oppression & power inequalities
Rhetorical tone - Answer- persuasive & simplistic
Political tone - Answer- overtly convey ideology/belief
Signposts - Answer- words/phrases indicating where you are in the process of
organizing your idea (first problem, next thing, final thoughts)
Good intro = - Answer- new info + controversial ideas
Heading 1 - Answer- Centred, Bold
Heading 2 - Answer- Left, Bold
Heading 3 - Answer- Left, Italics, Bold
, Heading 4 - Answer- Indented, Bold, Ends with a Period.
Heading 5 - Answer- Indented, Bold, Italic, Ends with a Period.
Narrative citation - Answer- "author (year) says...."
In-text citation - Answer- (author's last name, publication year)
Only cite author once in a paragraph if - Answer- it's clear that the other sentences are
paraphrased
Multiple references - Answer- alphabetically diff author separated by semi-colon,
chronologically same author
Same author & same year - Answer- letter notations (Lapum 2017a, 2017b)
Direct quotes - Answer- need page numbers, "author (year) says... 'this' (p. 42)."
Quotation marks for - Answer- 40 words
Block format for - Answer- more than 40 words
if there's a grammar/spelling mistake in the quote - Answer- [sic] "your [sic] good at
this!"
Only add the year the first time if - Answer- same author in the same paragraph
No author, no date - Answer- ("Source Title," n.d.).
Red herring - Answer- sentences that distract reader from thesis
Encoding - Answer- turning thoughts into communication
Decoding - Answer- turning communication into thoughts
Noise - Answer- anything that interferes with the message
Environmental Noise - Answer- physical noise
Semantic Noise - Answer- misinterpretation when decoding/encoding
Feedback - Answer- messages sent in response to other messages
Social context - Answer- stated rules/unstated norms
Relational context - Answer- interpersonal history & type of relationship
