Definitions
This can best be defined as a category of literature, identified by form, content and style.
What is Genre?
This is an example of this type of run-on sentence:
As a child, Susan went to the library every week, she loved reading books.
What is a comma splice?
Correct:
As a child, Susan went to the library every week. She loved reading books.
ALSO Correct:
As a child, Susan went to the library every week; she loved reading books.
This answer is either True or False:
Forgetting to credit an author, consulting with a classmate for revision suggestions, and not crediting their help, and purchasing a paper online are all examples of plagiarism.
What is True?
We refer to the narrator of a poem as this:
What is the Speaker?
Find and correct the error in the following sentence:
Carnival Row, which was released on Amazon, stars orlando bloom.
What is orlando bloom?
Proper nouns, like names should be capitalized.
Correct:
Carnival Row, which was released on Amazon, stars Orlando Bloom.
Biographies tell the story of the author's life, written by someone else, but they tell the story in the author's own words.
What are autobiographies?
This is an example of this type of sentence fragment:
Because Miguel was the club president.
What is a dependent clause?
Correct:
Because Miguel was the club president, he was asked to speak at the awards banquet.
ALSO Correct:
They asked him to speak at the awards banquet because Miguel was the club president.
A Works Cited Page is presented in this Citation Style.
True or False: Knowing the author's background is not important when we analyze a story or work of fiction.
What is False?
The author's background can help us to better understand the context or background of a work.
Find and correct the error in the following sentence:
The name of Yodas species is never stated.
What is "Yodas"?
Apostrophes should be used to indicate possession.
Correct:
The name of Yoda's species is never stated.
Writers can use these to refer back to something written in a previous sentence.
What are Pointing Words?
This is an example of this type of run-on sentence:
Allison wanted to go to the park she wanted to walk her dog there.
What is a fused sentence?
Correct:
Allison wanted to go to the park. She wanted to walk her dog there.
ALSO Correct:
Allison wanted to go to the park; she wanted to walk her dog there.
The author of a work should be credited for which of these things:
A direct quote
A paraphrase of their ideas
An idea introduced in their work
What is All of Them?
This is the careful reading and re-reading of a small portion of text.
What is a Close Reading?
Find and correct the error in the following sentence:
Although World Of Warcraft is a fun experience.
What is:
This is a sentence fragment.
(Corrections will vary)
This modern research acronym and tool helps students weed through junky research and separate good sources from bad ones.
What is the CRAAP test?
This is an example of this type of grammatical error:
Jerry and Jessica is twins.
What is a subject-verb agreement error?
Correct:
Jerry and Jessica ARE twins.
We can credit an author of a source with a listing in the works cited page, and these, which are included in a paper's text.
What are Parenthetical Citations?
Antonia Peacock's television analysis essay from our class is focused on this animated television series.
What is Family Guy?
Find and correct the error in the following sentence:
If you ever miss class, you can check CANVAS for updates I always post class activities and homework assignments there.
What is this is a run-on sentence? This can be edited in one of three ways:
1. Write each independent clause as a sentence.
2. Use a semicolon to join the clauses in one sentence.
3. Use a comma and a coordinate conjunctive (FANBOYS) to join the independent clauses.
This is a group of words that also contains a subject and a verb, but it is not a complete thought. If it appears alone, it counts as a sentence fragment.
What is a dependent clause?
This sentence fragment is missing this:
walks to the park.
What is a subject?
Correct:
(Amy, Joseph, he, she, they, My grandma, The Dog, etc) walks to the park.
Plagiarism can be considered an act of this.
What is Academic Dishonesty?
True or False:
A Literary Analysis presents a summary of a work.
What is False?
A Literary Analysis does not summarize a work, but presents an idea about it.
Find and correct the error in the following sentence:
The Disney princesses is popular with children around the world.
What is this is a subject-verb agreement error?
The verb tense and number of the noun (the subject of the sentence) must "match".
Correct:
The Disney princesses are popular with children around the world.