Nursing Preparation Study Guide

Nursing Preparation Study Guide Example Read the following passage. Then answer the multiple-choice question. How to Download a New Font 1. Search for a new font to download. 2. Click on the button that says download next to the font sample. 3. Select your operating systems (either Windows or Mac). 4. Save the file. 5. Choose a location for your download and download the file. 6. Open your saved file and use your new font. What type of writing is this? a. Narrative b. Persuasive c. Technical d. Expository This text is technical writing. It gives very specific instructions to the reader on how to download a new font. The information is presented in a list. Technical writing will often be in the form of lists, text boxes and instructions. Technical writing is similar to expository writing because they both contain facts. They differ in that technical writing is for teaching the reader to do a specific action while expository writing explains information more generally. Context Clues Imagine you are reading something and you stumble across a word you do not know. Rather than stopping what you are doing to look the word up you could use context clues instead. Context clues are hints that the author gives to help us define a difficult or unusual word. The context clue(s) might be other words mentioned in the same sentence or are even provided for you in preceding and forgoing sentences. Use the following example to using context clues to identify the meaning of a word. Example The winner of the gold medal was omnipotent against his weaker opponents. They didn’t stand a chance. He was twice as fast and three times as strong. It was almost as if he wasn’t human, but instead using some kind of magic. What is the best definition of the word omnipotent in this passage? a.

Godlike b. Vicious c. Powerless d. Supreme

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