In the Beginning
Sentence Structure
Commas
Papers
Citing Sources
100
The website ends with .gov. The author is a doctor or a known expert. The information comes from a research database.
What is discovering reliable sources?
100
Subject, Verb, Predicate
What are the essential parts of a sentence?
100
A sentence introducing a geographical place or a date should have a comma placed somewhere.
Where is after the name or date?
100
There is a statement that must be included in all introductions, no matter the format.
What is a thesis statement?
100
MLA is an abbreviation.
What is the Modern Language Association?
200
Any knowledge that one already knows can fit under this term. Anytime someone speaks with a purpose (which is almost always) it can be called by this word.
What is rhetoric or rhetorical knowledge?
200
An incomplete sentence and a complete sentence can be called by other terms.
What are an independent clause and a dependent clause?
200
The girl that I went to school with is now a chef.
What is there should never be a comma separating the word that from the rest of the sentence?
200
The format in which we write, also known as the manners of writing, can be called by this term.
What are conventions?
200
Sally Smith, the author, said: By the seashore, we can find many things. There are sharks and turtles who would love to eat little people. They kidnap children and teach them to speak mermish, while torturing them. I still love the beach. (80)
What is a block quote?
300
There are skills that everyone thinks about before they write. You must know them before you can effectively put a pencil to the paper.
What are rhetorical writing strategies?
300
When a comma is placed in between two independent clauses, it is called by this term. When two independent clauses are run together without punctuation, it is called by this term.
What are comma splices and run-on/fused sentences?
300
Coordinate adjectives are two adjectives that can be separated when describing a noun. Non-coordinative adjectives cannot be separated, because the meaning could become confused.
What is needs a comma only between coordinate adjectives?
300
There are differences between the four types of essays we wrote in this class. Each of the essays represents a different genre of writing, as well as the four standards of essays.
What are Personal Narrative Papers, Book Reviews, Persuasive Papers, and Expository Papers? What is writing about you versus writing about a novel? What is writing a research paper to persuade versus writing a research paper to inform?
300
The period goes inside the quotation marks when you do not need to cite. The period goes outside the quotation marks when you cite.
What is a general quote? What is a quotation using MLA?
400
Name five things not to do in a paper.
What is: ambiguity, innapropriate language, use the numeral for a number, use contractions, and poor grammar?
400
Words like when, however, and meanwhile can be called by a certian term, because they can confuse us into thinking a dependent clause is independent.
What are dependent marker words?
400
For, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so can be called by one of two term names. You need a comma only in certain circumstances with these terms.
What are conjunctions or FANBOYS? What is only if it is a complete sentence after the conjunction?
400
This semester we read "The Lottery", "The Highwayman", "So Nobody Has to Go to School if They do Not Want to", "Mother Tongue", and "Salvation." These stories were in a variety of genres that may have enlightened us as to how to improve our papers.
What are horror, tragedy, persuasive article, and personal narratives?
400
The author uses striking language. You may feel you can sum up the author's words best.
What is when to use a direct quote versus an indirect quote?
500
Name three rhetorical writing strategies.
What are genre, purpose, audience, conventions, mood and tone?
500
The boy went to school today. The boy went to school today! Did the boy go to school today? Go to school today!
What is declarative, exclamatory, interrogative, and imperative?
500
Name three instances in which we do not use commas.
What are separating the subject from the verb, verb compounds, when using that, and in lists of less than three items.
500
There are three parts to all essays. Certain information must be included in each section for the essay to be effective.
What are the introduction, the body, and the conclusion? What are thesis statements, proof, tying the paper continuously back to the thesis, and summing it all up?
500
Sometimes it is necessary to write a quote within a quote. Other times, you may need to quote your author from within another source and your citation will look different.
What are single quotation marks? What is as quoted in, abbreviated?
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