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The Delta College English Guided Self Placement Survey (GSP) is intended to help you find the right English class. Based on the results of this GSP, a first-semester writing course will be recommended to you.

GSP Questions: Please answer the following questions carefully and honestly.

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* 1. Name:

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* 2. Student Number:

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* 3. I can write a two-page essay without help.

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* 4. It is easy for me to discuss a topic, verbally or in writing, after reading about it in a textbook.

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* 5. I know what the term “scholarly source” means.

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* 6. I understand how to write and organize sentences to create well-developed paragraphs.

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* 7. I’m confident that I can read at least one whole book of more than 300 pages in a single semester.

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* 8. I have written a paper that cited information from outside sources and used it to support my own opinions on a topic.

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* 9. I fully understand transitional words like “moreover,” “notwithstanding,” “however,” and “subsequently” and how they function in an essay.

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* 10. I understand when to break for a new paragraph in my writing, and I could explain that to another person.

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* 11. I understand how to write a thesis statement and where it should be placed in an essay.

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* 12. I know what it means to move from “general to specific” and could offer several examples if asked.

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* 13. Based on my reading and writing skills, I would be most successful in a class that

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* 14. Imagine that you received the following essay assignment:

After you have finished reading, choose the response that sounds most like your first reaction to getting this assignment.

“A shocking two-thirds of Americans believe that robots will, in the very near future, perform most of the work done by humans; however, 80% also think that their jobs will not be affected."

Consider why Americans should or should not be concerned.

Write 4-5 pages exploring at least three reasons why Americans will or will not likely be displaced by machines and what positive or negative impacts expanding automation promises for these workers. Help the reader understand the specific causes and effects that you have identified. Develop your argument with expert sources and evidence appropriate for an academic setting.

Your essay should:
  • include a thesis statement, clearly expressing a purpose and written for a specific audience of readers,
  • use supporting paragraphs that use appropriate, specific, and convincing evidence within a text to expand upon the thesis statement;
  • have unified and organized supporting paragraphs;
  • use transitions within the writing to achieve coherence and focus; and contain sentences that are clear, precise, and grammatically correct.
Which of the following responses sounds most like your first reaction to getting this assignment?

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* 15. The following is an excerpt from the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” originally written for The Atlantic by Nicholas Carr, a technology and culture writer. Read the passage and select the option that best describes you.

“Thanks to the ubiquity of text on the Internet, not to mention the popularity of text messaging on cell phone, we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice. But it’s a different kind of reading, and behind it lies a different kind of thinking—perhaps even a new sense of the self. “We are not only what we read,” says Maryanne Wolf, a developmental psychologist at Tufts University and the author of Proust and Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain. “We are how we read.” Wolf worries that the style of reading promoted by the Net, a style that puts “efficiency” and “immediacy” above all else, may be weakening our capacity for the kind of deep reading that emerged when an earlier technology, the printing press, made long and complex works of prose commonplace. When we read online, she says, we tend to become “mere decoders of information.” Our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains largely disengaged.”

Based on your reading of this passage, which of the following statements best describes you:

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* 16. Which statement best describes your interaction with this survey?

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* 17. My High School GPA (Grade Point Average) was:

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* 18. My Evidence-based Reading and Writing SAT score was:

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