THINK_READER, How to rewrite with the reader in mind

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Answer to the questions in Chapter 12

Exercises for Chapter 1
Memory/Attention drawbacks and limitations
* When would you ask someone to slow down or repeat what they say? 1, 2, 3, and 4
*Why do you remember wrongly? 1, 2, 3, and 4

Exercises for Chapter 2
* Why is time a constraint, not a resource? 1
*Which technique always reduces reader fatigue and increases reader satisfaction? 2 and 3

Exercises for Chapter 3
*Syllables. How many words are there of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 syllables in the first text? 4
* Syllables. How many words are there of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 syllables in the second text? 2
* How many phrases do not follow the left-to-right bracketing order? 2
* What happened? 2 and 4
* Which of the two sentences is less ambiguous? 2
* Out of the seven principles for the use of acronyms listed below, which principle is broken in the following heading or title? 3
*What sections cover the problems in this sentence? Use the section numbers listed:1 to 11? 3
* Which 3 schemes of the 9 listed are used to simplify this sentence? 3

Exercises for Chapter 4
* What creates attention problems in the paragraph? 2, 3, 5, and 6

Exercises for Chapter 5
* Sort the words by ‘heaviness’ level from light to heavy (according to # of Google search results)? 3
* How would you check that your writing addresses the needs of readers at different levels of expertise? 2, 3, 4, and 5

Exercises for Chapter 6
* What two techniques create far reaching expectations in this paragraph where Mark Twain describes his experience in being tempted by and ultimately booking a cruise? 3 and 4
* What progression scheme is featured below (you may want to look at a world map)? 3
* What are all the progression schemes (if any) featured in the text? 2 and 3
* Which progression scheme(s) is(are) at play in this text? 1, 2, 3, and 4
* The paragraph is structured in two parts: far-off cry, nearer cry. How does the writer set expectations through patterns? 1, 2, and 3
* What kind of hedges does the professor use in his opinion?
1 and 3
* Which text characterizes the hedge against error? 1 and 3
* Which is the progression scheme used in this paragraph? 1

Exercises for Chapter 7
* Read the first seven paragraphs of the text. What is characteristic of the writing style of the authors of Will The Gentleman Please Yield? 1 and 2
* What is the similarity between the first sentences in paragraphs 2 to 7? 2, 3, and 4
* Paragraph 1. Which technique(s) bring(s) the reader into the author’s argument? 3
*Paragraph 1. Why are the authors quoting Lee Iacocca, book writer, outspoken critic, admired leader and Chairman of Chrysler, a company he revived at the time the article was written? 4
* Paragraph 1. First sentence. Which is (are) the technique(s) used to set the expectation that re-election of incumbents, not victories for challengers, will be the outcome of the 1990 congressional elections? 2
* Paragraph 1. How is the appearance of ‘objectivity’ conveyed? 2 and 3
* Paragraph 1. How is subjectivity represented? 1, 2, and 3
* Paragraph 1. How is text fluidity achieved? 1 and 2
* Paragraph 1. ‘Sitting congressmen’, ‘incumbent legislators’, ‘incumbent senator’, ‘representative who ran’ ... What is the effect of the abundance of synonyms? 2
* Paragraph 2. What does the first sentence accomplish? 1, 2, and 3
* Paragraph 2. What is the effect of putting the only state opposed to term limits (Washington) in a sub-clause at the beginning of a sentence? 2
* Paragraph 2. What is the effect of the accumulation of numbers in the last sentence? 1 and 2
* Paragraph 2. In §1, dissatisfaction is with members of congress. In §2, it extends to elected officials (state and congress). What is the effect of the amalgam? 1 and 2
* Paragraph 3. What is the effect of the adjective fashionable on the reader? 4
* Paragraph 3. What is the purpose of the last sentence in the §? 1 and 2
* Paragraph 5. Which adjectives and adverbs give the opponent argument its strength? 1, 2, 3, and 4
* Paragraph 6. Is the argument of the opposition questioned, and if so how? 1 and 2
* Paragraph 7. What reveals the presence of the authors in the proposal? 2, 3, and 4
* Which techniques does Voltaire use to make his case for the fact that Nature itself produces the unique Lapps? 6

Exercises for Chapter 8
* Use Hemingway on the paragraph. How many sentences contain the passive voice? 4
* How many adverbs are in the last sentence of the paragraph according to Hemingway (first number), and according to parts-of-speech.info or MS Word (second number)? 2
* Use SWAN. Copy and paste the paragraph in the Introduction tab (part of the quick start section). Do not answer the questions, start the evaluation. What is the average sentence length? 2
* Use MS Word. In the paragraph, how many mistakes did Microsoft Word spell & grammar checker find? 1

Exercises for Chapter 9

* Use MS Word. Paste all text under the heading ‘Testing text readability’ in chapter 9 into MS Word and get its readability statistics. Which [reading ease & grade level] scores do you get? 3
* According to one research mentioned in the chapter, what percentage of readers are estimated to read only parts of a scientific paper after reading its abstract? 2
* Reader perception. Is 10% the same as one in ten? 3
* Who said that a text is clear, not when it is understood, but when it cannot be misunderstood? 2

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