Assessment Description:

This quiz covers material that is critical to your success in ENG-105. As you take the quiz, please write down vocabulary and concepts that seem unfamiliar. You will have a chance to refresh your understanding of all the information on this quiz throughout our first week of class. Please do not hesitate to ask about topic Resources for any information you need.

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Solution to ENG-105-ONL5: English Composition I - Topic 1 Quiz: Part One.

SAMPLE 1

ENG-105: Topic 1 Quiz-Part 1

Quiz Details

This quiz covers material that is critical to your success in ENG-105. As you take the quiz, please write down vocabulary and concepts that seem unfamiliar. You will have a chance to refresh your understanding of all the information on this quiz throughout our first week of class. Please do not hesitate to ask about study materials for any information you need.

The quiz will be in two parts; part one will be responding to the questions below, and part two will be a multiple choice section.

Part One Instruction:

Please answer the following five questions on this document; if you require more room to respond to the question, the space can be manipulated. Please remember to save your work and then submit this document in the assignment drop box for Module 1 Quiz: Part One. If you are unclear of these instructions, please contact your instructor.

1. Using the following information, create an APA 7th Edition title page for Clark Kent. Clark Kent is writing an essay for Professor Thunder Lope’s ENG-105, English Composition I course, which is located in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. He asks you to guide him in writing his title page in APA Style 7th Edition for a paper that is due February 1, 2023.  His essay is titled, “Flying High Above the Rest.”  In the space below, please create the formatting for his title page using his information.

Flying High Above the Rest

Clark Kent

College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Grand Canyon University

ENG-105: English Composition I

Professor Thunder Lope

February 1, 2023

 

2. Sally Student has been asked to summarize a passage from her PHI-105 textbook. In your own words, what is a summary? (Your response should be between 25-50 words please.)

A summary refers to a concise overview of a larger text or piece of information that captures the main ideas and key points while omitting unnecessary details to allow the reader to quickly grasp the essence of the original text without having to go through the entire source material.

3. Summarize the following passage in 25-50 words:

From Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”:

“In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self purification; and direct action. We have gone through all these steps in Birmingham. There can be no gainsaying the fact that racial injustice engulfs this community. Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Its ugly record of brutality is widely known. Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation. These are the hard, brutal facts of the case. On the basis of these conditions, Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the latter consistently refused to engage in good faith negotiation” (King, 2018, p. 75).

Martin Luther King, Jr. outlines four steps of a nonviolent campaign, asserting that Birmingham had experienced racial injustice, segregation, police brutality, unjust court treatment, and unsolved bombings. Despite these "hard, brutal facts," city leaders refused to negotiate in good faith with Negro leaders who were seeking change through nonviolent means.

4. Write a paragraph interpreting the meaning of the passage taken from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”: (Your response should be at least 100 words in length please.)

“In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self purification; and direct action. We have gone through all these steps in Birmingham. There can be no gainsaying the fact that racial injustice engulfs this community. Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Its ugly record of brutality is widely known. Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation. These are the hard, brutal facts of the case. On the basis of these conditions, Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the latter consistently refused to engage in good faith negotiation” (King, 2018, p. 75).

Martin Luther King Jr. outlines the four steps of a nonviolent campaign which are; gathering evidence of injustices, negotiating for change, maintaining moral high ground, and direct action. He asserts that Birmingham's civil rights movement followed these steps, yet faced pervasive racial injustices, including segregation, police brutality, unjust court treatment of African Americans, and unsolved bombings of black homes and churches. These "hard, brutal facts" justified Negro leaders' attempts to negotiate with city authorities. However, despite the overwhelming evidence of discrimination and the reasonable pursuit of negotiations, city officials consistently refused to engage in good faith hence denying the legitimate demands for equality and justice. This necessitated a more direct action.

5. Based on the guidelines for the first essay assignment and the assigned readings for this week, what is a rhetorical analysis? What does it mean to analyze a text?  (Your response should be between 50-100 words please.)

Based on this week’s reading, rhetorical analysis can be described as closely examining and evaluating the rhetorical strategies and techniques an author uses to communicate their message to an audience effectively. To analyze a text rhetorically means critically assessing the author's use of rhetorical appeals (ethos, pathos, logos) while considering the rhetorical situation such as the audience, occasion, or purpose. The goal of a rhetorical analysis is to determine how well the rhetorical strategies align with and achieve the author's intended purpose for that particular audience and occasion.

Reference

King, M. L., Jr. (2018). Letter from Birmingham Jail. Atlantic Monthly, 74-83.