Quiz 2 - University of Florida GEB 3213 - QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS (ALL CORRECT)

Question 1 1 / 1 pts Select the revision that reduces the following sentence to the essential information: Bringing the project to final completion three weeks early, the new manager earned our respectful regard. Delivering the project’s completion three weeks early was very respectable. The manager completed the project three weeks early. Three weeks early is a respectable way to complete a project, and for that, the manager earned our regard. Correct! We respected the new manager for completing the project three weeks early. The correct version of the rewritten sentence is the most concise of the options while also keeping the original meaning. Question 2 1 / 1 pts Which of the following are three strategies for writing concisely? 1. add negatives, 2. add redundancies, and 3. use past tense 1. avoid negatives, 2. avoid redundancies, and 3. use passive voice Correct! 1. avoid negatives, 2. avoid redundancies, and 3. avoid meta-discourse (writing about writing) 1. state the obvious, 2. think of words as money, and spend as much as possible, and 3. use active voice The techniques for concise writing are 1. fewest words (economical writer), 2. don't state what your reader can easily infer, 3. avoid redundancies, 4. avoid negatives, and 5. avoid metadiscourse Question 3 1 / 1 pts Skip to question text. Select the version of the sentence that is more concise: Correct! We need to compute the total mass of the universe to understand whether the universe is open or closed. No agreement exists on the question of a