Easy Writer
Death Sentences
Grammar Got Run Over by a Reindeer
The "F" Word
A Cup of "T"
100
Amy Chua
Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior
100
Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.
Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
100
Study habits and reading styles can really effect your success in college.
Affect/effect
100
A sentence that is not an independent clause
Fragment
100
Martin Gansberg's article about the Kitty Genovese murder first appeared in this New York newspaper in 1964.
Times
200
Amy Tan
Mother Tongue
200
Of all the wonderful things that happened to me last year, that was the most wonderful.
Sandra Cisneros' "Only Daughter"
200
Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9, 1865, and then he addresses his men.
Verb tense
200
Daum's term and the title of her essay
Fameiness
200
Skloot calls this place the first-ever cell production factory, producing 20,000 tubes of HeLa each week.
Tuskegee Institute
300
Zev Chafets
Let Steroids Into the Hall of Fame
300
"Then," a solemn police detective said, "the people came out."
Martin Gansberg's "Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police"
300
Einstein was a brilliant mathematician. This is how he was able to explain the universe.
Unclear pronoun reference
300
What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is _____ until you're good at it.
Fun
300
Out-of-the-way town where Henrietta Lacks lived
Turner Station
400
Anya Kamenetz
Take This Internship and Shove It
400
It is my equivalent of the cowbell that hikers wear when they know they are in bear country.
Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space
400
Students are put in a vulnerable position when they accept unpaid internships, they are basically slaves to the company.
Comma splice
400
The first animal-human hybrid cells were created when they _____ HeLa cells with mouse cells.
fused
400
What type of logic includes claims, grounds, and warrants?
Toulmin logic
500
Charles Krauthammer
Yes, Let's Pay for Organs
500
Obscurity.
Let Steroids into the Hall of Fame
500
As Deborah Tannen points out, men speak more than women in public, but at home less talking is done by them (423).
Faulty parallelism
500
In "The Case for Mandatory Organ Donation," Scott Carney cites this company as a possible "yardstick" for how kidney donations could work.
FedEx
500
In "Yes, Let's Pay for Organs," the author opens the essay by stating, "Pennsylvania plans to begin paying the relatives of organ donors _____ toward funeral expenses." What dollar amount does he reference?
Three hundred
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