English 102
Making big changes in a paper like rearranging sentences, rewriting claims, structuring paragraphs and ideas and improving focus and clarity
What is editing?
This source is a work that analyzes or interprets primary sources, such as a history textbook or a scholarly article about a historical event
What is a secondary source?
UNLV's colors
What is scarlet and grey
This rule ensures that a singular subject takes a singular verb and a plural subject takes a plural verb
What is subject-verb agreement?
This 2023 film became a viral meme thanks to the "Hi Barbie!" catchphrase and pink aesthetic
What is Barbie?
This was our first project where you explained what you wanted to research for your writing project
What is a proposal? (Writing Project 1)
The collection of citations/sources at the end of a scholarly journal article are part of what type of reference?
What is a bibliography?
The year UNLV was founded
What is 1957?
This rule is broken when two complete sentences are joined without proper punctuation or conjunctions
What is a run-on sentence?
This internet term refers to a man who performs a "soft," artsy or emotionally aware identity, often associated with tote bags, wired headphones, reading feminist literature, and drinking an iced matcha
What is a performative man?
The spelling of Miss. Keo's last name
Keovorabouth
The citation is used when directly quoting or paraphrasing a source
What is an in-text citation?
The tallest building on campus
FDH Building
BONUS: What does FDH stand for?
This rule explains when to use commas to separate items in a list
Example: "I dedicate this book to my parents, Ayn Rand, and God."
What is the serial (Oxford) comma rule?
This term describes a person who creates content mainly for aesthetics and lifestyle branding
What is a content creator (or influencer)?
This was our Powerpoint theme when we were learning how to paraphrase, summarize, and quote our sources and how to make claims and support them.
What is Twilight?
This kind of information does not need to be cited: "The sky is blue"
What is common knowledge
The football team plays at this stadium shared with the Raiders
What is Allegiant stadium?
What is a fragment?
Both Robert Downey Jr. and Benedict Cumberbatch have played this character
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
This part of academic writing explains how and why evidence supports a claim, rather than just presenting it
What is analysis?
This citation style is often used in fields within the humanities
What is MLA?
BONUS: What does MLA stand for? Modern Language Association
This famous alumni is known for his catchphrase "Flavortown"
This rule is broken when two complete sentences are joined with only a comma.
Example: "I studied for the exam, I felt prepared"
What is a comma splice?
Name this song in less than ten seconds--less than 3 seconds?
BONUS: Finish the lyric
What is "All Star" by Smash Mouth