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    Week 1 Writing - and - Editing - Drafting - W1

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    1.

    Question 1

    Default rules, Cass Sunstein of Harvard Law School points out, can be great. They can save time. They can
    save money. They can increase overall efficiency. But they can also have drawbacks, which is why
    Sunstein considered a hybrid approach of “personalized defaults.”

    All of the above.

    2.

    Question 2

    One of the classroom clips mentioned the idea of “freewriting” endorsed by Peter Elbow of the
    University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Which one of the statements below best aligns with that
    approach?

    “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” -- Louis
    L’Amour

    3.

    Question 3

    Anne Lamott calls the idea that successful writers crank perfectly formed paragraphs as fast as a court
    reporter the “____________.”

    fantasy of the uninitiated

    4.

    Question 4

    Which answer describes temptation bundling?

    “Whenever I am on the treadmill or stairmaster or elliptical, I’ll watch my favorite tv show. In fact that
    is the only time I’ll watch it. If I’m not moving, I’m not watching.”

    5.

    Question 5

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    The “Takeaways” segment this week included a passage from Make It Stick, in which two cognitive
    psychologists from the University of Washington and the University St. Louis team up with the writer
    Peter Brown to examine the science behind successful learning.

    “Some people never seem to learn. One difference, perhaps, between those who do and don’t is
    whether they have cultivated the habit of ________.”

    reflection

    6.

    Question 6

    What is the principal use of semicolons?

    They connect independent clauses.

    7.

    Question 7

    The Notes on Nuance segment this week covered the word “simultaneously.” We said it operates in a
    way very similar to what other Notes on Nuance move?

    At once

    8.

    Question 8

    One of the classroom clips quotes a letter from Ernest Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald. In it, Hemingway
    shares that his bad writing vastly outnumbers, in drafted pages, his good writing. He even playfully offers
    a specific ratio. What is it?

    One good page for every 91 bad pages.

    9.

    Question 9

    True or false: Semicolons are universally adored.

    False

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    10.

    Question 10

    Finish the following sentence from a research paper discussed in the video “Temptation Bundling”:

    “[A] temptation device,” the authors explain, “makes the activity whose pursuit requires willpower more
    _____.”

    alluring

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