Writing Skills Assessment - Wilbers: Writing for Business & Pleasure
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Writing Skills Assessment
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Assessment
How good are your copyediting skills?
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Assessment
Take this 3-part, 15-point
copyediting quiz to test your
command of usage, grammar
and punctuation.
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Assessment
Count your correct choices.
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Assessment
Ready?
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Assessment
Part 1: Usage
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Assessment
1. The list is comprised of /
composed of 75 common errors.
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Assessment
1. The list is comprised of /
[composed of] 75 common errors.
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Assessment
2. I’m not looking for compliments
/ complements.
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Assessment
2. I’m not looking for [compliments]
/ complements.
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Assessment
3. I don’t intend to push the issue
further / farther.
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Assessment
3. I don’t intend to push the issue
[further] / farther.
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Assessment
4. The last thing I want to do is
persuade / convince you that I
never make mistakes.
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Assessment
4. The last thing I want to do is
persuade / [convince] you that I
never make mistakes.
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Assessment
5. Here is the principle / principal
point for business writers.
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Assessment
5. Here is the principle / [principal]
point for business writers.
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Assessment
Usage: 5
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Assessment
Part 2: Grammar
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Assessment
1. The complexity of the problems
make this a difficult issue.
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Assessment
1. The complexity of the problems
make[s] this a difficult issue.
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Assessment
1. The complexity of the problems
make[s] this a difficult issue.
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Assessment
1. The complexity (of the problems)
make[s] this a difficult issue.
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Assessment
1. The complexity
make[s] this a difficult issue.
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Assessment2. The Good Writing Press may
have to trim their payroll,
however, the company is
expecting new demand for it’s
products.
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Assessment2. The Good Writing Press may
have to trim [its] payroll,
however, the company is
expecting new demand for it’s
products.
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Assessment2. The Good Writing Press may
have to trim [its] payroll[.]
However, the company is
expecting new demand for it’s
products.
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Assessment2. The Good Writing Press may
have to trim [its] payroll[;]
however, the company is
expecting new demand for it’s
products.
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Assessment2. The Good Writing Press may
have to trim [its] payroll[;]
however, the company is
expecting new demand for [its]
products.
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Assessment
3. Good communication skills can
help managers affect change.
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Assessment
3. Good communication skills can
help managers [e]ffect change.
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Assessment
4. Our procedures for following up
on delinquent accounts are
inconsistent, incomplete, and
not reliable.
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Assessment
4. Our procedures for following up
on delinquent accounts are
inconsistent, incomplete, and
not reliable.
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Assessment
4. Our procedures for following up
on delinquent accounts are
inconsistent, incomplete, and
[un]reliable.
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Assessment
Usage: 5 (See correct word choice.)
Grammar: 6
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Assessment
Usage: 5 (See correct word choice.)
Grammar: 6 (See three common errors.)
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Assessment
Part 3: Punctuation
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Assessment
“To communicate effectively you
must know three things your
audience your purpose and
your material”
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Assessment
“To communicate effectively[,] you
must know three things your
audience your purpose and
your material”
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Assessment
“To communicate effectively[,] you
must know three things[:] your
audience your purpose and
your material”
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Assessment
“To communicate effectively[,] you
must know three things[:] your
audience[,] your purpose and
your material”
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Assessment
“To communicate effectively[,] you
must know three things[:] your
audience[,] your purpose(,) and
your material”
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Assessment
“To communicate effectively[,] you
must know three things[:] your
audience[,] your purpose(,) and
your material[.]”
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Assessment
Usage: 5 (See correct word choice.)
Grammar: 6 (See three common errors.)
Punctuation: 4
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Assessment
Usage: 5 (See correct word choice.)
Grammar: 6 (See three common errors.)
Punctuation: 4 (See punctuation errors.)
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Assessment
Usage: 5 (See correct word choice.)
Grammar: 6 (See three common errors.)
Punctuation: 4 (See punctuation errors.)
Total: 15
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Assessment
See my column for explanations
of the correct choices.