Grammar
A group of words punctuated as a sentence but not a full grammatical sentence.
What is a sentence fragment?
This group of words introduces the author, often giving information about why this person is credible.
What is a signal phrase?
This method of indentation should be used for every works cited entry.
What is a hanging indent?
This sentence or two near the beginning of a paper determines the direction of the paper and gives an assertion that must be supported.
What is a thesis statement?
The city that Nora is from.
What is Bedford?
A type of a part of speech used along with a comma when fixing a comma splice or a fused sentence.
What is a coordinating conjuntion?
Including a quotation in a paper without using a signal phrase or including an explanation afterward.
What is a dropped quotation?
This mark of punctuation around the title of a source signifies that a source is part of a larger whole.
What is a quotation mark?
These words in the body of an essay, often at the beginning of a paragraph, tell the audience how to think about, organize, and react to ideas.
What are transitions?
This experience is what Mrs. Elm refers to when she says, "the only way to learn is to live."
What is Nora's finding Voltaire under the bed?
The title for an error with two sentences combined with no punctuation between them.
What is a fused sentence?
Their idea, your words, same length.
What is a paraphrase?
This is almost always the second element in the works cited entry.
What is the title?
This is generally the most effective point of view for a research paper.
What is third person point of view?
Who is Nora's dad?
This term refers to using verbs and predicates in the same time fragment.
What is consistent verb tense?
A mark of punctuation that shows that something has been removed from the quotation.
When citing a work with more than two authors, this abbreviation is used.
What is et al.?
This paragraph serves to interest the reader, introduce the topic, and give the thesis.
What is an introduction?
This is the topic that Nora is researching during her life with Ash.
This is the term for a verb or predicate that refers to something that is yet to come.
What is the future tense?
An exact usage of the author's words without quotation marks or acknowledging the author.
In a title, these types of words are not capitalized.
What is an article or a conjunction?
This word covers the reasons for writing an essay. There are several types of reason that we discussed in class.
What is a purpose?
This the person who calls the ambulance for Nora near the end of the book.
Who is Mr. Banjeree?