Quotations
"It has been clear for quite a while now that red America and blue America are becoming like two different countries . . ."
Jonathan Haidt
You can use this form of punctuation to: enclose an interruption, prevent misreading, introduce an elaboration or an example, or introduce a list
A dash
_________ is the doctrine that all
knowledge is observation-based
Empiricism
What is Professor Crosby's favorite baseball team?
The Athletics
For a source in a work cited with two authors, the format is last name, first name ______, _______
First name, last name
An introduction paragraph should usually start by answering what question?
What is it? Or, what is the topic?
"Evaluating news sources is one of the more contentious issues out there. People have their favorite news sources and don’t like to be told that their news source is untrustworthy."
Mike Caulfield
You can use this punctuation to form compound adjectives
A hyphen
What is the dogfish problem?
Creating a thesis with only a cursory knowledge of the subject or debate
Professor Crosby took what English course his freshmen year?
Shakespeare / Public Speaking
If a source has no author, and is not a major organization, you should cite what, in a parenthetical citation?
The title of the article
Opponent's claims against your topic or thesis are
Counter arguments
Soon after I returned from India I was talking with a taxi driver who told me he had just become a father. I asked him if he planned on staying in the U.S. or returning to his native Jordan.
Jonathan Haidt
In MLA format, an ellipses has how many spaces, and how many periods?
Three periods, and four spaces . . . Like that
What is one reason that the number of journalist in the U.S. has declined in the last fifteen years?
Deregulation allowing major media corporation mergers, or decline of physical newspapers and a move online, or the end of the fairness doctrine,
What is Professor Crosby's favorite video game? (be specific)
Final Fantasy III (or VI, in Japan)
If you use two or more different works by the same author, how do you cite the second work, in a work cited?
Three hyphens and a period
---.
You should (almost) never end a paragraph with what?
A quotation
" . . . and to take a relatively innocuous example, a prospective son-in-law may pretend to be an active and participating member of a bridge-playing community in order to make a favorable impression on his prospective parent-in-laws."
John Swales
This sentence is what kind of grammar error?
The pink geranium blooming in its pot.
A sentence fragment, or missing a verb
What is one problem that a decline in journalists has caused?
Increased distrust of reliable news media, increased political polarization, increased white-collar crime
Professor Crosby's primary scholarly interest is in?
Utopian literature / science fiction
Foreign names or words should be formatted how, in MLA?
In italics
MLA stands for what?
Modern Language Association
"In a word, Observation."
Rosenwasser (David) & Stephen (Jill)
This sentence has what kind of error?
I like to waterski, to skate, and swimming.
Parallelism, or faulty parallelism
"_____ is the timeliness of an argument. “In short, _____ dictates that what is said, must be said at the right time.”
Kairos
Professor Crosby attended what college for his MFA?
The California College of the Arts
You should use this punctuation mark to separate lines of poetry
A forward Slash /
In MLA, this rarely used form of citation is used to address an aside, or an interesting but not vital piece of information
A footnote