Writing 10: Evaluating Integrated Task Responses
Answer Key
For Exercise 1, answers will vary. For Exercise 2, answers will vary. Exercise 3, Part 2, sample explanation for response receiving the score of 1:
• The response does not provide clear or relevant details from the lecture. It mentions the Chevalier de Seingalt’s habits and his memoir but lacks specific, coherent content that ties back to the lecture. • The language used in the response is often unclear and grammatically incorrect, making it hard to understand the intended meaning . For example, ◊ “That memoir is about all of people who he met spoken words” is confusing and should be rephrased for clarity . ◊ “Another habit is loan for fortune” is unclear and should be explained better. ◊ “Last of thing is trying to questioning to himself” is grammatically incorrect and unclear. Exercise 3 Lecture Transcript Narrator: Now listen to part of a lecture on the topic you just read about. No memoir can possibly be correct in every detail, but still, the Chevalier’s [shuh VAL yays] memoir is pretty accurate overall and is, by and large, a reliable historical source. Let’s look at the accuracy of the three episodes mentioned in the reading. First, the loan from the merchant: Well, that doesn’t mean that the Chevalier [shuh VAL yay] was poor. Let me explain. We know that in Switzerland, the Chevalier spent huge amounts of money on parties and on gambling. And he had wealth, but it was the kind of property you have to sell first to get money. So it usually took a few days to convert his assets into actual money. So when he ran out of cash, he had to borrow some while he was waiting for his money to arrive—but that’s not being poor! Second, the conversations with Voltaire: The Chevalier states in his memoir that each night, immediately after conversing with Voltaire, he wrote down everything he could remember about that particular night’s conversation . Evidently, the Chevalier kept his notes of these conversations for many years and referred to them when writing the memoir. Witnesses who lived with the Chevalier in his later life confirm that he regularly consulted notes and journals when composing the memoir. Third, the Chevalier’s escape from the prison in Venice: Other prisoners in that prison had even more powerful friends than he did, and none of them were ever able to bribe their way to freedom, so bribery hardly seems likely in his case . The best evidence, though, comes from some old Venetian government documents . They indicate that soon after the Chevalier escaped from the prison, the ceiling of his old prison room had to be repaired. Why would they need to repair a ceiling unless he had escaped exactly as he said he did?
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