Grammar
Punctuation
Technical Writing Genres and Elements
Writing Style and Elements
Miscellaneous
100
Everyone has their books.
What is a pronoun agreement mistake?
100
The dog slept and the cat scratched.
What is a missing comma between two independent clauses?
100
How to Write like a Pro
What are instructions?
100
Focusing on one topic per unit of written information
What is paragraph unity?
100
This format requires no salutation, just a subject line.
What is AMS Simplified format.
200
When the doctor came in, she checked the patient's pulse, oxygen saturation levels, and tested for good reflexes.
What is lack of parallelism?
200
While assessing houses, the surveyor took pictures of Mr. Joneses house.
What is a missing apostrophe? (using plural instead of possessive)
200
Appendix, Glossary, Index
What is back matter?
200
Writing that meets the needs and expectations of the readers.
What is audience awareness?
200
Appendix, glossary, index
What is the back matter of a report?
300
The windmill shut down, therefore the power went out.
What is a comma splice?
300
I like listening to music by groups such as: Twisted Sister, the Grateful Dead, and Duran Duran when I run.
What is a misused colon?
300
The Water Cycle
What is a description (or process description)?
300
Referencing an image and explaining its importance
What is good use of visuals/good incorporation of visuals?
300
a visual that is good for showing before and after states
What is a photograph?
400
After surveying 1,278 men and women, the most common response was "I am not voting."
What is a dangling modifier?
400
After reading "The 10 Things I Hate about Writing", I now know why writing is so hard.
What is a comma that should go inside of the quotation mark?
400
Correcting the High Employee-Turnover Rate
What is a recommendation report?
400
Two elements that take the longest in the writing process
What are planning and revising?
400
One is scientific and focuses on the methods and results, whereas the other is for a managerial audience and focuses on purpose and conclusions.
What is the difference between and abstract and an executive summary?
500
Representative Suzie Que, one of the twenty House women who runs unopposed each election, has pulled out of the race, stating she needed to spend more time with her cats.
What is a lack of subject-verb agreement?
500
There are so many half baked ideas in politics that I think I've got political food poisoning.
What is a missing hyphen?
500
Government Grants Available for Research into Ways to Prevent Water Pollution
What is a call for proposals/request for proposals?
500
Text that is copied from one document and used in another
What is boiler plate?
500
What you have to use to determine the PAC for a message.
What are critical thinking (analytical) skills?
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