I sent my resume to IXL and I received an email requesting a "writing sample" which was specific, and exactly what they were hiring for - this is a dishonest harvesting practice, asking every applicant for a "sample" and hiring no one. This is what they wrote to me: IXL Learning: Content Writer Interview Questions You are writing content for a third-grade grammar skill about common and proper nouns. Each problem will include one sentence. Students will identify the nouns in the sentence and classify each noun as common or proper. Please write 15 sample sentences based on the instructions below. Instructions ? Sentences should be written at a third-grade level. ? Each sentence should have between three and five nouns, including at least one proper noun and one common noun. ? Avoid nouns that might be unfamiliar to third graders. ? Stick to concrete nouns, i.e. nouns that are obviously people, places, or things; as one resource describes it, concrete nouns are nouns that you can detect with one of your five senses. ? Don't write sentences with verbs that "scream" noun, like "Jane plans to book a DJ for her event" or "Jane has been hired to pen a book." ? Don't write sentences with nouns that "scream" verb, like "Play is important for young children" or "Jane is going on a run." ? "Flexible" nouns and verbs are OK as long as their use is clear from context, like "Jane wants to become a cook" and "Jane plans to cook dinner." ? Avoid nouns used as adverbs, like "Jane plans to make dinner Wednesday." Instead, try "on Wednesday." ? Your sentences should contain a variety of nouns (don’t use the same three nouns in every sentence). Sample sentence Alligators live in ponds and rivers in the United States and China.