Skills
Texts
Films
Research
Grammar and Format
100

The quotes, facts, and data you present in an academic essay.

What is evidence?

100

It is the mythical mountain in Elif Shafak's narrative.

What is Mt. Qaf?

100

It is the type of shot where the upper half of a person's body is visible in the frame.

What is medium shot?

100

The X in the XYZ formula.

What is the position you are arguing against or trying to revise called?

100

They are what you put in the top right corner of your paper.

What are last name and page number?

200

It is what you have to turn in on May 2. 

What is your portfolio?

200

It is the subject Xiaolu Guo studied in Britain.

What is filmmaking?
200

This is what Eilis Lacey studied at the night school at Brooklyn College.

What is bookkeeping?

200

Heading, identification, summary, evaluation, and relevance.

What are the components of an annotated bibliography entry?

200

A clause that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence.

What is a dependent clause?

300

They are the five analytical moves.

What are suspend judgment, notice and focus, the method, so what, and reformulating questions and answers.

300

The X in Bruce Horner et al.'s article.

What is the monolingual approach?

300

It is the sound that characters in the film cannot hear.

What is non-diegetic sound?

300

A journalist, feature writer, or anonymous author.

Who is typically the author of a non-academic source?

300

It is the order in which the sources in a work cited page should be listed.

What is alphabetical order?

400

Comprehensive, accurate, coherent, brief, and neutral.

What are the qualities of a good summary?

400

Because Amy Tan wants to show how her mother faces discrimination due to her broken English.

Why does Amy Tan mention her mother's visit to the stockbroker and her experience at the hospital?

400

It is the name of Eilis Lacey's hometown in Ireland.

What is Enniscorthy?

400

They are the six features that distinguish academic from non-academic sources

What are purpose, author, publisher, audience, style, and reference?

400

It is the error in this sentence: "John told Jeff that his neighbor is loud."

What is ambiguous pronoun reference?

500

They are what you need to find in the third step of the five analytical moves.

What are repetitions, strands, and binaries?

500

It is the Polish neighborhood in Chicago where Sonya Lara grew up.

What is Cragin?

500

They are the five members in the Clasky family in Spanglish. 

Who are John, Deborah, Bernie, Georgie, and Evelyn?

500

They are three of the requirements when you design an inquiry question. 

What is a not easily answerable, answerable by the primary text, non-factual, open-ended, and moderately broad question? (any 3 out of the 5)

500

They are the errors in this sentence: "The team played there best, they are determined to win the tournament."

What are diction error, comma splice, and subject-verb disagreement?

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