PDF Writing to communicate 3 Answer, Essays and the short research paper, Cynthia A. Boardman

Writing to communicate 3 Answer, Essays and the short research paper, Cynthia A. Boardman

This file is an answer key for the textbook "Writing to Communicate 3: Essays and the Short Research Paper" by Cynthia A. Boardman. It provides solutions and possible answers for practices and exercises found in the student book, covering various aspects of writing.

The content is organized by chapter, addressing topics such as:

• The Process of Writing: Connecting sentences, identifying paragraph parts, analyzing paragraphs, writing paragraphs, analyzing and writing thesis statements, and completing essays.
• The Cause and Effect Essay: Identifying causes and effects, determining true cause and effect relationships, outlining and reorganizing essays, and using collocations.
• The Problem and Solution Essay: Choosing topics, finding solutions, determining objections and counter-objections, analyzing model essays, rewriting stringy sentences, and correcting run-on sentences and comma splices.
• Summarizing and Responding: Identifying parts of a summary and response, writing summaries, reducing adverbial and adjective clauses, and using reporting words.
• Responding to a Travel Story: Using Quotations: Analyzing excerpts and responses, using quotation marks, brackets, and ellipses, creating reference lists, writing in-text citations, and correcting dangling modifiers.
• Two Sides of an Issue: Responding with Paraphrasing: Identifying controversial issues, comparing honors, analyzing arguments, evaluating paraphrases, changing sentence structure, choosing synonyms, changing word types, paraphrasing sentences, and correcting fragments.
• The First Draft: Understanding assignments, completing circle diagrams, writing working theses, choosing organizational patterns, planning research from a first draft, and rewriting sentences with biased language.
• Doing Research: Evaluating research results, deciding when to quote, paraphrase, or summarize, inserting appropriate support, and correcting faulty grammatical structures and parallelism.
• Revising and Editing: Evaluating introductory, concluding, and body paragraphs, using transition paragraphs, editing for grammar and punctuation mistakes, editing citations, and editing a references list.

The answer key often provides "Possible answers" and notes that "Student answers may vary," indicating that some exercises allow for a range of correct responses. It also includes sections for "Bringing It All Together" to review ideas and analyze errors across different parts of the book.