Grammar
MLA
Writing Standards
Fallacies
Miscellaneous
100
This is used to separate two complete sentences.
What is a semicolon?
100
This appears at the end of your research paper, for the sources you have cited, in a specific order.
Answer- Alphabetized Works Cited
100
What type of sources are recommended to use within an argumentative essay?
What is Academically peer reviewed sources
100
This fallacy appeals to the status quo, the association that an idea or course of action is good because its the way things have always been done.
What is appeal to tradition
100
what must be put in our bagpacks as soon as class begins?
What is a Cell Phone
200
The things within a list are separated by what?
What is a comma
200
To condense a quoted passage or indicate that you have omitted words we use this.
Answer- Ellipsis Mark
200
What is the ideal word count for a 4.0 paper in writing 122?
What is 1,300 words
200
This is a type fallacy that uses evidence to distract the reader from the true issues of the argument.
What is Red Herring
200
These are stated assumptions used as reasons in an argument (The word comes from a Latin word meaning "to send before" or "to set in-front of".)
what is a Premise
300
The bored sleepy student daydreams about going home and taking a nap. What is wrong with this sentence?
What is a comma between bored and sleepy.
300
To show that you are using a source’s exact phrases or sentences enclose them with these
Answer- Quotations
300
A list of books or other material on a subject, as well as a brief description.
What is Annotated bibliography
300
This fallacy is an argument that plays on the idea that "everyone is doing it."
What is Appeal to popularity (Bandwagoning)
300
What is the one thing professor vance says she "needs" every morning?
What is her coffee
400
The acronym “FANBOYS” is used to complete a sentence how?
What is forming a preposition
400
This allows you to insert your own words into quoted material
Answer- Brackets
400
Word choice and smooth transitions are considered to be apart of what category (think grading rubric).
What is Style
400
This fallacy plays on the notion that if some course of action is or is not pursued, terrible consequences will occur.
What is Slippery Slope
400
This is a type of reasoning that involves the mental process of moving from one statement through another.
What is deductive reasoning
500
The difference between your and you’re is what?
What is, your is possessive while you’re is a contraction for you are.
500
MLA does not require this; instead on the first page of your paper, place your name, your instructor’s name, course title and the date.
Answer- Title Page
500
What is consider a passing grade for a writing 122 portfolio?
2.5
500
This is a fallacy in which the arguer puts down another view point based on character flaws that have nothing to do with the argument at issue.
What is Ad Hominem
500
This type of thinking requires us to see things from perspectives other than our own and to envision the likely consequences of our position. And involves a two fold activities of Analysis and Evaluations.
What is Critical Thinking
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