After Finishing the First Draft of a Research Paper, Diego

question 18

Multiple Choice

After finishing the first draft of a research paper, Diego asked a staff member at the writing center to look it over and give him some feedback. When he sat down to discuss the paper with the reviewer, he was told that it needed a lot of work. There were many spelling errors and some of his arguments lacked sufficient evidence. After he left, Diego reflected on the reviewer's feedback and told himself that he knew he could do better, and then dedicated the next few nights to revising his paper. Diego can be described as having a(n) _____ mindset.

• A) fixed
• B) growth
• C) intrinsic
• D) extrinsic

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Definitions:

Demographic Transition Model

A theory describing the transition from high birth and death rates to lower birth and death rates as a country or region develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system.

Development

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U.S.-Canada Border

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Age Structure

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