Grammar
This type of sentence ends in a period and makes a statement.
What is a declarative sentence?
The words that characters say to each other in a narrative.
What is dialogue?
The first sentence in a body paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
This is the process of a piece of writing being looked at by other experts in the field.
What is peer review?
A study by The Journal of Housing Economics found that "rent control overall did not significantly contribute to decreasing wealth gaps in metropolitan areas."
This is what the sentence above is missing.
What is an in-text citation?
This punctuation mark goes before a coordinating conjunction in a compound sentence.
What is a comma?
The Diary of Anne Frank is an example of this kind of narrative.
What is a nonfiction, personal, or memoir narrative?
This, along with evidence, is one of the main building blocks of body paragraphs in academic writing.
What is analysis?
This involves examining all available information and considering different perspectives before making a decision, and it is one of the key learning outcomes for English 101.
What is critical thinking?
The name of an outlet that puts someone's work out to the public.
What is a publisher?
This part of speech refers to someone's name or something unique and is capitalized.
What is a proper noun?
This is the driving factor in most narratives, creating a problem to solve and/or causing characters to go through changes.
What is conflict?
This term refers to the standards by which we judge a subject.
What are criteria?
If a student claims that a source says something that it actually doesn't, they are spreading this.
What is misinformation?
This is the type of indentation used in Works Cited pages.
What is a hanging indent?
The unit of syntax between a word and a sentence.
What is a clause?
This literary device uses descriptions of the five senses to help the reader picture the situation.
What is imagery?
This bias refers to the human tendency to seek out and interpret information that supports our existing beliefs.
What is confirmation bias?
This is the part of a counterargument where the writer disproves the opposing side and reminds the reader why their side is correct.
What is a rebuttal?
This abbreviation, meaning "and others" in Latin, is used to refer to research with three or more authors.
What is et al.?
In addition to organization and spelling, this third concept is a major part of grammar.
What is pronunciation?
This is a figure of speech that is not meant to be taken literally, but rather to represent an idea or explain something figuratively.
What is a metaphor?
One might cite a quote from a famous film director in their paper about their favorite movie to appeal to this.
A writer might cite a study where the opposing side contradicts their own points and published incorrect information to appeal to this.
What is logos, or sense of logic?
This string is a unique series of numbers and letters that points to an online research article and functions like a URL, but is more secure.
What is a digital object identifier or DOI?