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    Writing and Editing Revising W1

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    1. In the poem "An Essay on Criticism," Alexander Pope suggests that for a poem to be truly exceptional, the sounds of the words must link up with and seem like an echo of the sense or meaning of the words. 2. When filmmaker Ken Burns collaborates with others, he will delegate certain tasks but not give up control over the editing room. 3. Writers are not always able to see obvious flaws in their own writing, such as sentences that are cumbersome, redundant, or contradictory, because as the writer, the flawed sentences were invisible to them.

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    1. In the poem "An Essay on Criticism," Alexander Pope suggests that for a poem to be truly exceptional, the sounds of the words must link up with and seem like an echo of the sense or meaning of the words. 2. When filmmaker Ken Burns collaborates with others, he will delegate certain tasks but not give up control over the editing room. 3. Writers are not always able to see obvious flaws in their own writing, such as sentences that are cumbersome, redundant, or contradictory, because as the writer, the flawed sentences were invisible to them.

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    1. In the poem "An Essay on Criticism," Alexander Pope suggests that for a poem to be truly exceptional, the sounds of the words must link up with and seem like an echo of the sense or meaning of the words. 2. When filmmaker Ken Burns collaborates with others, he will delegate certain tasks but not give up control over the editing room. 3. Writers are not always able to see obvious flaws in their own writing, such as sentences that are cumbersome, redundant, or contradictory, because as the writer, the flawed sentences were invisible to them.

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    1. In the poem "An Essay on Criticism," Alexander Pope suggests that for a poem to be truly exceptional, the sounds of the words must link up with and seem like an echo of the sense or meaning of the words. 2. When filmmaker Ken Burns collaborates with others, he will delegate certain tasks but not give up control over the editing room. 3. Writers are not always able to see obvious flaws in their own writing, such as sentences that are cumbersome, redundant, or contradictory, because as the writer, the flawed sentences were invisible to them.

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    1.

    Question 1

    In “An Essay on Criticism,” the 18th century British poet Alexander Pope suggests that it is not enough
    that the sound of a poem not “give offense.” To be a really exceptional piece of verse, the sound must
    link up with the meaning of words as well. “The sound,” he writes, “must seem an echo to the ______.”

    paragraphing

    sense

    2.

    Question 2

    The documentary filmmaker Ken Burns often collaborates with people and will delegate certain tasks to
    them. But what does he tell the journalist Ian Parker is the one thing he won’t give up control over?

    Studio time

    The editing room

    3.

    Question 3

    In a 2012 essay called “The Trouble with Intentions,” Verlyn Klinkenborg observes that sentences “may
    be long, short, simple, complex, clear, ambiguous, even incoherent. But they don’t try to hide those
    qualities. They are what they are and they say what they say.” The problem is that writers aren’t always
    able to see these qualities, particularly when the qualities are negative. Klinkenborg has looked at
    countless sentences that are deficient in various ways - they’re cumbersome, redundant, jumbled,
    contradictory - and he has asked himself: Why didn’t the writers catch these mistakes? Why couldn’t
    they see the obvious flaws the reader now has to suffer through?

    His answer: “The sentence, as written, was _______ to them.”

    invisible

    4.

    Question 4

    True or False: A clause contains a verb (or verb phrase).

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    True

    5.

    Question 5

    Chapter 4 (“Sound and Sense”) of Good With Words: Writing and Editing includes some adaptations of a
    pair of questions that John Roberts of the U.S. Supreme Court used to ask about legal briefs when he
    was still a practicing attorney: (1) What is this case about? and (2) Why should I win?

    All of the above

    6.

    Question 6

    True or False: There are no dependent clauses in the following sentence, which is often attributed to the
    19th century Romantic poet Lord Bryon: “If I could always read, I would never feel the want of company.”

    False

    7.

    Question 7

    How many independent clauses are in the following sentence Abraham Lincoln wrote to Horace Greely
    on August 22, 1862, in the middle of the American Civil War and when a draft of the Emancipation
    Proclamation had already been created?

    “If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the
    slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.”

    8.

    Question 8

    Chapter 4 (“Sound and Sense) of Good with Words: Writing and Editing mentions that some of the
    world’s best novels started with a much different title and were only later edited into the ones they are
    now remembered by. Among the examples was a book that began as “Atticus.” What did that title
    eventually get changed to?

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    To Kill a Mockingbird

    9.

    Question 9

    True or False: The journalist Susan Orlean has tweeted that the “single best tool” for self-editing is
    reading your work out loud.

    True

    10.

    Question 10

    The Questions section of Chapter 4 (“Sound and Sense”) in Good with Words: Writing and Editing
    mentions that the American film director Alfred Hitchcock credited someone with having an even better
    editorial eye than he did. Who was the person?

    Orson Welles

    His wife, Alma Reville

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