Portfolio
Informative
Grammar
MLA
Fun Facts
100

This is what you are discussing in the reflective introduction of your portfolio.

Your growth as a writer throughout the course of the semester.

100

The informative essay required this amount of outside sources.

Two

100
This punctuation mark is used to join two independent clauses.

Semicolon

100

A header includes these things.

Your name, the instructor's name, the course, and the date submitted.

100

This U.S. president appears on the $50 bill.

Ulysses S. Grant

200

This is the MLA formatting requirement for the font and spacing of your portfolio essays.

12 pt., double spaced, Times New Roman, 1" margins

200

Kent Library has two main electronic search engines that are called this.

Proquest and JSTOR

200

This part of speech describes the action of the subject (not a verb).

Predicate

200

MLA requires this type of indention for citations.

Hanging

200

This is the year we landed on the moon. 

1969

300

This is the suggested page length for the portfolio.

5-6 pages

300

This is a key process when drafting your essay, where you check for mistakes in spelling, grammar, punctuation, and overall clarity.

Editing

300

What POV should be avoided in academic writing?

First and Second

300

When quoting more than four lines of prose, this type of block formatting is used.

A block quote.

300

This novella follows two migrant workers during the Great Depression

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

400

Two of these should be included in the portfolio, demonstrating your growth as a writer.

Revised essay

400

The informative essay requested you do these two types of in-text citations.

Parenthetical and signal

400

This part of speech connects words, phrases, or clauses, such as "and," "but," and "or."

Conjunction

400

If no author is available for a source, MLA suggests using this as the first element in the citation.

The title of the source. 

400

A group of crows is called this.

A murder

500

This is the definition for "rhetoric"

(We talked about it during the Literacy Narrative)

Effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.

500

This is what Ms. Witty encouraged you to add in your conclusions.

A motif, an "oh" moment, making it circular, etc, etc

500

These are the three articles in English.


a/an/the 

500

The correct way to cite a source with three or more authors in-text.

(Author et al. page number)

500

This is the only letter that doesn't appear in any US state name. 

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