Reading Q.uiz, Chapter Two of Revising Prose

Fill in blanks from Ch 2. (Note I didn't purchase book so preferably someone who has access to this book)

Book-Revising Prose, 5th Ed.

ISBN: ISBN-13: 978-0321441690

Authors: Lanham, Richard

Publisher: Pearson/Longman

Publication Date: 2007

Please read the second chapter of Revising Prose and answer the questions below.

1) Chapter two’s title (and the thing that author Richard Lanham says is the scarcest resource when revising) is

_______________________________.

2) Give an example of a -shun (-tion) word (Lanham dislikes these; he prefers verbs.):

____________________________________.

3) Japanese word for waste – from Toyota: __________________________________.

4) “The buzzwords that lard such shared illusions – facility, area, factor, model, strategy, input – shift the cost of communication, and thus of thinking, from the writer to the

_____________________.”

5) Name a common preposition: __________________________

6) Where did one of this chapter’s examples of writing, good or bad, come from?