This document is a quiz assignment from a course on international academic and professional paper writing. It contains 11 multiple choice questions about key concepts in research, writing, and citing sources. The questions cover topics such as setting high writing standards, developing effective writing, evaluating positive and negative impacts of automobiles, elements of persuasive writing and research, avoiding unfamiliarity with literature, asking worthwhile research questions, important sources for research, deploying evidence in arguments, presenting quantitative data, using tables and figures, and citing sources in a works cited list.

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Euclid Response Paper
Student Name: Luke Swem Beba
Student Country: Nigeria
Program Code: ACA-401
Course Code or Name: International Academic and Professional Paper Writing
Period 5
Professor / Assigned Tutor: Professor Laurent Cleenewerck
This page uses ☐ US English (for spelling, punctuation rules and formatting of
references).
The Rule of Style is: Turabian
Note: This document is in US letter (“8.5”x11”” format)
QUIZ ASSIGNMENT
 In building good writing habits, Zinsser asserts that: “Quality is its own
reward” if…
Writers set high standards for themselves (Write Source 2000: 4)
Standards are ends in themselves
If readers award the reward
 In the game of basketball, Coaches know what it takes to build a successful
team: strong rebounders, tough defenders, and good shooters. Whereas with
experienced writers, it takes a while to develop effective pieces of writing
through:
Good ideas and clear organization
Special writing gene or blessed by the writing fairy (Page 19)
Effective word choice
 Automobile has become an important part of modern life. However, the
damaging effective causes more problems than good except…
The average car gives off more than five tons of carbon dioxide every year, which is
the number one cause of global warming.

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The emissions from cars also contribute to the problems of acid rain and urban smog
thereby constituting also the leading cause of death and serious injury.
Automobiles are major means of transportation, hence, making many things much
easier (Page 116)
 One of the most common types of logical thinking is persuasive thinking. When
one is assigned a persuasive speaking or writing assignment, he is really asked
to do two things except…
Form an opinion – a personal feeling or belief – about some important subject.
Support or prove your opinion.
Apply fuzzy thinking and shortcuts (Page 294)
 Literature is writing that is excellent in form and packed with meaning and to
get the most out of your reading, you must avoid one thing…
Becoming familiar with the different types of literature
Learning about the parts or elements of literature
Becoming unfamiliar with the different types and elements of literature (Page 341)
 A research project is more than collecting data. Mention the most valuable
element in the general goals of this process
Ask a question worth answering by intellectuals
Ask a question worth answering (Turabian 2008: 18)
Ask a question you alone can answer
 The first and most important useful source in research project is
Primary sources for evidence (Page 24)
Secondary sources to learn from other researchers
Tertiary sources for introductory overviews
 A research argument deploys different dimensions among which include
State your reasons and evidence as a lecturer would to a silent audience
State out your reasons and evidence so that your readers can consider them (Page 36)
State out your reasons and evidence but do not answer your imagined readers’ questions

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 Ordinarily, presenting quantitative data verbally includes
Only a few numbers (Page 54)
A large data of numerical
Only in percentage numbers
 Many research papers use tables and figures to present data. Mention a major
means of presenting a figure
Tables
Charts (Page 214)
Columns
 Works Cited – Bibliography
Patrick Sebranek, Dave Kemper, & Verne Meyer, Write Source 2000: A Guide to
Writing, Thinking, and Learning, Great Source Education Group, a division of
Houghton Mifflin Company, (1999).
Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers of ResearchPapers, Theses, and
Dissertations: 8th Edition, Chicago Style for Students & Researchers, (2008).