Write-a-mania
MLA
Research Reports
The Whole enchilada
Punctuation
100
Ramona from the Real Housewives said, "I'm a person that likes to be in control." Is this grammatically correct?
""I'm a person who likes to be in control."
100
MLA is an acronym for this professional association's name.
What is the Modern Language Association
100
This genre of writing reports the findings of research to a reader.
What is a research report?
100
What you have nothing to say you have
What is Writer's Block
100
Use this to link together two very closely related independent clauses.
What is a semicolon.
200
This order arranges events as they actually occurred in time, first to last.
What is chronological order?
200
MLA describes the following two things about writing academic papers.
What is format and style?
200
The typical research report follows this organizational pattern, known by the acronym
What is IMRaD?
200
This invention technique requires one to write for a set amount of time without stopping to come up with ideas
What is free-writing
200
Use this after a sentence to show surprise, shock, awe, disgust, or other strong emotion.
What is an exclamation point.
300
Lays out the main ideas and their support, showing the relative importance of all the essay's elements.
What is an outline?
300
MLA's view on headings is that you ought to do these two things.
What is do what you want to and be consistent?
300
This optional section of a research report provides an overview of your report to the busy reader.
What is the abstract?
300
Intends to explain or inform in a prose pattern.
What is exposition or expository writing.
300
Put these around words of direct speech, or that you've "borrowed" from somewhere else.
What are quotation marks
400
Gets down on paper preliminary thoughts about a topic.
What is a draft
400
Tweet tweet. MLA's official guidelines on citing and referencing a Twitter Tweet are existent, non-existent, or determined by the writer.
What is existent?
400
This hybrid section of the research report presents and interprets findings to the reader.
What is the results & discussion section?
400
Thoroughly defines a subject with a longer, more detailed explanation.
What is an extended definition
400
Use this to show befuddlement or exasperation.
What is an interrobang.
500
Works as a means to explore ideas and possible topics for writing assignments.
What is pre-writing or invention?
500
The MLA has issued this many versions of it's popular guidelines for writing and preparing academic and scholarly papers.
What is seven?
500
What you're doing research, you must hold onto your research questions in this manner.
What is lightly
500
The tone of an essay is also called --.
What is voice
500
This is used to create a strong break in the structure of a sentence, can also be used to like parentheses
What is an em-dash.
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