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Read the conclusion to a personal statement.(1) I’ve had some growth experiences. (2) They’ve helped me to improve my math skills. (3) Moreover, I have learned to apply these skills to designing and constructing movie sets. (4) I’m looking forward to honing my skills by working as a production assistant on a film this summer.

Which sentence most needs to be revised to eliminate a split infinitive?

Read the introduction to a personal statement.Usually, when people talk about "rocky” relationships, it’s with a frown, but mine has enriched my life. I became fascinated with rocks when I was really young, and throughout my childhood you could usually find me with my pockets bulging from whatever stony treasures I’d scavenged that day. When my science teacher taught us a unit on geology, I realized that my fascination could become an exciting career that could also help me make good money. Obtaining an internship to work on the geological exhibit at the museum is an important step on my road to being a geologist.

Read the excerpt from "How to Think Like a Researcher," a chapter from How to Find Out Anything.But don’t throw your hands up in frustration and disgust just yet. Instead, let’s recast that open-ended question into a series of factual questions that you can answer.How much did CEO Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems earn in 2007?What was the average salary paid to the chief executive officers at the ten largest computer companies in the past five years?Who is an expert on computer industry compensation whom I can interview and quote?What books can I consult that discuss compensation trends in the software industry?By coming up with a series of factual questions to ask, the initial abstract question starts to take shape as a concrete project. These factual questions will yield to diligent research because answers to each of them can be found.

Which are examples of genres? Check all that apply.playsdiagramsnovelsessayslecturesequations

Which excerpt is most clearly from a primary source?

Read the excerpt from H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds.It was such a gradual movement that he discovered it only through noticing that a black mark that had been near him five minutes ago was now at the other side of the circumference. Even then he scarcely understood what this indicated, until he heard a muffled grating sound and saw the black mark jerk forward an inch or so. Then the thing came upon him in a flash. The cylinder was artificial—hollow—with an end that screwed out! Something within the cylinder was unscrewing the top!

Read the excerpt from Suffragists' "Great Demand" Banner.In June 1917, the District of Columbia police began arresting picketers for obstructing sidewalk traffic. The women would be sentenced to serve in the Occoquan Workhouse Prison in Lorton, Virginia. In August, scuffles broke out at the gates of the White House as angry spectators assaulted suffragists while city police stood by. The picketing continued. On October 20, Alice Paul was arrested and sentenced to seven months in jail. She and her companions were held in solitary confinement and denied counsel. Paul went on a hunger strike and was violently force-fed. Authorities confined her to a psychiatric ward in an effort to discredit her. On November 14, thirty women in the Workhouse Prison were beaten, threatened, and mistreated in what came to be known as the Night of Terror.

Identify reasons that support this claim. Select three answers.

Jamal is conducting research for a presentation on hidden symbols used in famous works of art. Which source would provide Jamal with the most relevant information?

Look at the images.

Read the sentence from a rough draft.Every kid should take a foreign language class to learn the ins and outs of a whole different culture.

Read the passage from How to Live Twenty-Four Hours a Day."What? I am to cultivate my mind in the street, on the platform, in the train, and in the crowded street again?” Precisely. Nothing simpler!

Read the excerpt from Act II of The Importance of Being Earnest.Algernon. [Raising his hat.] You are my little cousin Cecily, I’m sure.Cecily. You are under some strange mistake. I am not little. In fact, I believe I am more than usually tall for my age.

Read the excerpt from "Do not go gentle into that good night."Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Which sentence contains a split infinitive?

Read the excerpt from "Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell.I said earlier that the decadence of our language is probably curable. Those who deny this would argue, if they produced an argument at all, that language merely reflects existing social conditions, and that we cannot influence its development by any direct tinkering with words and constructions. So far as the general tone or spirit of a language goes, this may be true, but it is not true in detail. Silly words and expressions have often disappeared, not through any evolutionary process but owing to the conscious action of a minority. Two recent examples were explore every avenue and leave no stone unturned, which were killed by the jeers of a few journalists.

Which heading best exemplifies the format for an e-mail subject line?

Read the excerpt from The Fellowship of the Ring.Many people from other parts of the Shire were also asked; and there were even a few from outside the borders. Bilbo met the guests (and additions) at the new white gate in person. He gave away presents to all and sundry—the latter were those who went out again by a back way and came in again by the gate. Hobbits give presents to other people on their own birthdays. Not very expensive ones, as a rule, and not so lavishly as on this occasion; but it was not a bad system. Actually in Hobbiton and Bywater every day in the year it was somebody’s birthday, so that every hobbit in those parts had a fair chance of at least one present at least once a week. But they got tired of them.

Read the excerpt from Suffragists' "Great Demand" Banner.The effort picked up steam after the Civil War, when debate over the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which extended the vote to African American men, split the movement. Some leaders, like Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth, refused to endorse the amendment, believing it should also give women the vote. Others, such as Julia Ward Howe, Lucy Stone, and long-term women’s rights ally Frederick Douglass, argued that if black men were enfranchised, their support would help women achieve their goal. The conflict fractured the women’s movement, with some focusing on obtaining women’s suffrage state by state, others aiming at achieving universal suffrage at the federal level.