Use this to separate items in a series.
What is a comma?
A group of words that has a subject and predicate and finishes a thought
What is a sentence?
The initials of the organization that attempts to standardize the format of English papers.
What is M-L-A?
In this title the words that should be capitalized--reasons for the gifted program.
What are Reasons, Gifted and Program.
These words show relationships between words, phrases or paragraphs
What are transitions?
This paired mark encloses an in-text citation.
What is parenthesis?
A group of words that is missing either a subject or predicate
What is a fragment?
The information at the top of the page that has the author's last name and the page number
What is the running head?
This mark of punctuation is used after the author's name and after the name of the article in the works cited.
What is a period?
The consideration of audience, purpose, design, and stance
What is the rhetorical situation?
In American English periods and commas go inside this mark
What is quotation mark
What is a compound sentence?
The title of the page that contains the information about the sources that were used in the paper.
What is Works Cited?
The identifying feature of the container.
What is italics?
These are the three classical appeals
What are ethos, pathos, and logos
These three dots show that material has been left out.
What is an ellipsis?
What is a complex sentence?
The spacing between the title and the text in an MLA document
What is double?
A writer who introduces the use of borrowed material by using the author's name is using this.
What is a signal phrase?
In a composition class, this is what the text calls "taking notes."
What is annotating
If you see this mark you should "note what follows"
What is a colon?
Two or more independent clauses joined only by a comma
What is a comma splice?
The name given to the kind of formatting used on the second line of a works cited entry?
What is hanging indent?
These paired marks indicate that the writer has used exact words from a source or is referring to an article, song or poem
What are quotation marks?
The genre of Danielle Allen's "Our Declaration"
What is textual analysis?