Quiz #3
#1) [3 pts.] One of the essential skills of research is to discern when to use a direct quote and when to use paraphrasing. Explain one good reason why a research writer would opt to present information as either a direct quote or to use a paraphrase instead. From pages 94-96 of Ruggiero’s The Art of Thinking, 11th edition, pick any one of the boldfaced sections, and from that section present either a paraphrase or a direct quote. Be sure to correctly use a correct in-text citation. If you are typing, submit your work either by posting online as a double spaced Word document with your name on it; or you can turn this assignment in as printed hard copy at the GC Testing Center. (If you are turning this quiz in by hand, use underlining to indicate any italics that might be needed.)
#2) [3 pts.] To “explicate” a text means to give a full or detailed explanation of meaning. This quiz question gives you two quotes from Ruggiero’s chapter 4. Pick one of them. Explicate the quote not by simply repeating what it says but by explaining what it means. One way to accomplish that might be to think in terms of an example, though there are other ways to do it.
Quote A: Ruggiero prepares us, saying, “this chapter isn’t about basic comprehension. It is about analyzing and evaluating the messages you receive and deciding whether they are worthy of acceptance” (63).
Quote B: Even a lunatic can have a good idea, and even a genius will, on occasion, be wrong. If you do not control your tendency to accept or reject ideas on the basis who expresses them, your analysis of everything you hear, read, or view is likely to be distorted” (65).
#3) [2 pts.] Chapter 5 is all about the relationship between thinking and creativity. In the multiple choice quiz question below, which answer best sums up what Ruggiero informs us research to have shown about the roots of creativity:
Multiple choice question: In summing up the creative process, especially in creative people such as great artists and creative writers, which of the following statements is true:
Creativity can’t be learned because really creative people are mostly born that way
The best way to be creative is to just ignore the traditional ways most of society does things
Taking drugs enhances creativity, especially known psychedelic drugs like the peyote sometimes ceremoniously used by Native Americans
None of the listed choices above are true
Choices a, b, and c are all true
#4) [4 pts] In chapter 6 Ruggiero begins by talking about curiosity and finding new uses for old things, and then a couple of times he discusses implications, which is a word which I myself have repeatedly made a big deal out of. Ruggiero talks about finding new uses for old things. Consider any of the following items: old socks with holes in them; treadless used tires, egg shells after cracking them to release the yolk; chicken or steak bones after cooking and eating the meat; battered, beaten and worn baseballs or softballs no longer suitable for playing or practicing with; broken wooden baseball or softball bats; old somewhat faded papers and notebooks written while you were in high school or college; empty potato chip and Fritos and Doritos bags; or old mattresses found in dump piles along the side of remote country roads (they can never be made suitable for sleeping on, in other words). Find a new use for any one of these items (you cannot just say “recycle it”). But there is a catch. No matter how plausible or outlandish, you have to have some kind of plan for making money off of your idea. And in a sentence or two you have to explain an implication of either your plan for re-purposing your chosen item in a profitable way or you can propose an implication of doing nothing with such items but discarding them.
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