Before starting this assignment, read the Athabasca University Student Academic
Before starting this assignment, read the Athabasca University Student Academic Misconduct Policy (PDF). For this assignment, this means that you must include an in-text citation whenever you are referring to or using an author’s words. Put their name and the page number in brackets at the end of your quotation or paraphrase. For example, (Rodier 17).
Please submit this assignment using the drop box tools at the bottom of this page. Do not email your assignments; if you are unable to use the drop box, contact your tutor.
Put your information (name and ID, course and assignment information, and date) on the top left of the first page. Here is a sample paper in MLA style that explains what the cover page should look like. Please include page numbers.
You should have a works cited page. For this assignment, it will include the essay you are reading. Scroll to the end of the sample paper to see a works cited page.
Specific Instructions
The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate your learning from Units 1, 2, and 3 of how to decipher meaning from a text.
Use this essay from Reader’s Choice, and complete questions 2 and 7 in the table below.
Klein, Naomi. “Co-opting Dissent.” Reader’s Choice: Essays for Thinking, Reading, and Writing. 7th ed., edited by Kim Flachmann, Michael Flachmann, Alexandra MacLennan, and Jamie Zeppa, Pearson, 2013, pp. 164–168.
Weight Question Instructions
(5) 1. For each set of instructions in this assignment (i.e., questions 1–12), identify the direction words.
(25) 2. Read the essay and use either the SQ4R or the Reading Inventory active reading techniques. Document your active reading and submit your notes. For those steps usually done “in your head” (such as recite), write down briefly what you did in the step.
Note: if you use a Reading Inventory, when you reach “rereading,” only answer the questions from the first three bullets of “rereading” listed in the Reading Inventory table (Reader’s Choice 41).
Note: you may photograph or scan your active reading notes and include them in your assignment document.
(5) 3. In a word or phrase, state the topic of the passage.
(5) 4. What is the author’s purpose? In a sentence or two, explain why you consider that to be the author’s purpose.
(5) 5. Is the main idea explicit or implicit? If it is explicit, quote the thesis statement (in quotation marks), and identify the page number where it is located. If the idea is implicit, state the main idea in your own words.
(5) 6. Describe the tone of the essay. In a few sentences, explain what impact this tone has on your reactions as a reader, and give an example to illustrate the tone.
(25) 7. From your reaction/reflection notes, choose and copy a comment that triggers a topic idea for you. Then, state the topic. State your purpose. State your main idea. Now, write a brief paragraph (no longer than 200 words) in which you express this main idea, and provide suitable supporting details.
(5) 8. Find an example of a coordinating sentence. Give the page number where it is located, and write out the sentence. Identify the core parts of the sentence (subject and verb), as well as the conjunction. Explain what makes it a coordinating sentence, referring specifically to how a coordinating sentence is constructed.
(5) 9. Repeat the steps in question 8 for a subordinate sentence.
(5) 10. Write out two examples of transitions from the essay. Give the page numbers where the examples are located. Explain how that particular transition indicates the relationships among ideas.
(5) 11. Find an example of comma use. Write out the sentence, and indicate the page number. Indicate which commas you are going to explain, and identify how they work in the sentence.
(5) 12. Repeat the steps in question 11 for one of the following: colon, semicolon, or dash.
(100) total
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