Hodgepodge
The first two considerations when writing, or when analyzing the writing of another.
What are audience and purpose?
Adding “-ion” to the end of a verb usually creates one of these, which can make sentences dull and hard to understand.
What is an abstract noun?
To set off an introductory phrase beginning with a subordinate conjunction, use this.
What is a comma?
One of several elements of a paragraph.
What is a transition, topic sentence, evidence, examples, relevance, analysis, or conclusion?
Informal language used in a particular field or trade is called this.
What is jargon?
When writing scientific names, they should be properly capitalized, as well as formatted like this.
What is italicized?
The following sentence has this kind of grammar error:
We were interested in estimating the relative intensity of habitat use, therefore we related individual mule deer GPS locations to the height of the utilization distribution.
What is a comma splice?
To properly use a semicolon, it must be placed between 2 of these.
What are independent clauses?
When you introduce a new one of these, you should begin a new paragraph.
What is an idea, argument, issue, or claim?
When writing numbers, one should generally use these to express cardinal numbers >2 and ordinal numbers > 10.
What are numerals?
"spp." is the plural abbreviation for this.
What is "species"?
The type of grammar error that is illustrated in this example:
Working with speed and efficiency, the fire control lines installed by the crew were able to save the neighborhood.
What is a dangling participle?
This punctuation can be used to introduce a list or series.
What is a colon?
Relating what you’ve already said to what you will say next, or referring back to previous information before introducing new ideas, is an example of this writing technique.
What is the "known-new" contract?
In CSE name-year style, this stop demarcates elements of end references.
What is a period?
When the subject of a sentence is performing the action, it's known as this.
What is active voice?
If you find excessively long compound terms in your writing, you can fix them by doing this.
What is rewriting to clarify grammatical structures OR hyphenating directly related modifiers?
This punctuation sets off, with a sharp break, a parenthetical element of a sentence that defines or explains another part of the sentence.
What is an em dash?
When all sentences relate to a central idea, a paragraph is considered to be this.
What is "unified"?
What is a semicolon?
The phrase “knuckle sandwich” is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is an idiom?
What type of grammar error is illustrated in this example:
In 2012 at least forty percent of the volume of select white and red oaks other red oaks and yellow-poplar were in trees ≥17 inches while hard maple white ash and hickory had less than twenty five percent of their volume in this size class.
What is a run-on sentence?
To demarcate letters or text that is added to amplify or clarify the original text, use these.
What are square brackets?
This step in writing a scientific paragraph occurs when evidence is explained or interpreted.
What is analysis?
In scientific writing, this word should be used for the past tense of "prove", as in, "The theory has been ______."
What is “proved”?