MLA
Evaluative Essay
Grammar & Punctuation
SEMO
Fun Facts
100

This goes in the top left corner of the first page of an essay.

What is a header?

100
The essay must be this long in MLA format.

What is 4-5 pages?

100

This punctuation mark is used to join two independent clauses with a coordinating conjunction. 

What is a comma?

100

This was SEMO's mascot before Rowdy.

Who is Chief Sagamore?

100

A group of flamingos is called this colorful name.

What is a flamboyance?

200

This is the correct font and size for MLA formatting.

What is 12pt and anything legible?

200

This makes up a thesis (as we discussed last week).

What is an observation + opinion?

200

A sentence missing a predicate is called this.

What is a fragment?

200

SEMO's Writing Lab can be found in this building and room. 

What is Kent Library 311?

200

This condiment was sold as a cure for indigestion.

What is ketchup?

300

This should be centered at the top of a new page at the end of a researched essay.

What is Works Cited?

300

These are the spaces that students cannot write over.

Dorm rooms, campus church locations, frat/sorority houses, classrooms, and the courtyard outside. 

300

This is the word that represents the verb phrase.

What is a predicate?

300

This is the president of the university.

Who is Brad Hodson?

300

Bananas are technically classified as this type of food.

What is a berry?

400

This is what MLA stands for.

What is the Modern Language Association?

400
If a student starts with the UC, but narrows their space to Starbucks, they are practicing this skill.

What is refining the scope (or narrowing the focus)?

400
A run-on sentence can be corrected with one of these three methods.

 What are a period, a semicolon, or a comma with a coordinating conjunction?

400

This is the title of the poem read at graduation and quoted in the UC.

Come to the Edge

400

This US president kept a pet alligator in the White House bathtub.

Who was John Quincy Adams?

500

Long quotations of prose (four lines or more) should be formatted this way.

What is a block quote?

500

Note-taking, observing, and talking with people are examples of this type of research.

What is qualitative research?
500

This renames or describes another noun or pronoun in a sentence.

What is an appositive phrase?

500

This is the author that SEMO holds the second largest collection of.

Who is William Faulkner?

500

In Missouri, it is illegal to do what with a bear.

What is wrestling (or traveling with an uncaged bear)?
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