Punctuation and Sentences
Vocabulary
Essay Structure
Citations
Research
100

Six commas need inserted into the following sentence. Insert them.

"Say Matt what time is it over there and why does China of all places have a different time zone?"

"Say, Matt, what time is it over there, and why does China, of all places, have a different time zone?"

100

Etymology is a technique used to help determine the this of a word.

What is origin?

100

The opening line of an essay, or sometimes the last line of the opening paragraph sums up the contents of the paper and is called this.

What is a thesis or thesis statement?

100

In MLA in-text citations, this follows the author's name (if the source was found online).

What is paragraph number (par.)?

100

The first rule of research is:

What is "Consult many sources"

200

When Something is Written Using Capitals Like This, it is Called This.

What is Title Case?

200

In the SSCD model, "C" stands for context and "D" stands for dictionary. What, in order, do the two S's stand for?

What are see and say?

200

In general, each paragraph of an essay should begin with one of these and end with one of these.

What are topic sentence and transition sentence?

200

In APA citations, this number is used to identify an article with a specific code, abbreviated as DOI.

What is a Digital Object Identifier?

200

The second rule of research is:

What is "Consult many sources"

300

The Colon (:) is used only after this, to denote an upcoming list of some sort.

What is an independent clause?

300

Knowledge of the language of origin of a word can help you determine how to pronounce it. For example, in this language, the letter "T" at the end of a word is silent.

What is French? (Chevrolet, escargot, accoutrement)

300

While there is no standard or "correct" number given, it is generally accepted that each paragraph of an essay be this many sentences in length.

What is five?

300

If you find a short story in an anthology you want to use as a source, the anthology is written into the citation. It is correctly called this.

What is a container?

300

Wikipedia is acceptable as a source (although never cited) if it is used to derive this type of information

What is Common Knowledge?

400

A sentence comprised of three independent clauses is what type of sentence?

What is a compound sentence?

400

The words abacus, cherub, macabre, and pharaoh, among many others, have this language as their origin.

What is Hebrew?

400

Whenever you have trouble starting your essay, or you find that there is too much material to cover, or that you are being extremely general, its a good idea to do this.

What is narrow your thesis or be more specific?

400

Give two examples of contributors, to whom you would also need to give attribution in a citation.

What are illustrator, translator, editor, compiler, researcher, photographer, etc.?

400

When conducting research, this search engine may provide much better results than a basic Google search.

What is Google Scholar?

500

Classify the following sentence:

"Six times I've told you, and six times you've failed to listen to me, David - irritating, that's what you are."

What is compound-complex?

500

Conjugate the following verb from this infinitive: (simple past, past participle, present participle, future tense, future perfect): TO BITE.


Simple past: Bit

Past Participle: Bitten

Present Participle: Biting

Future Tense: Will Bite

Future Perfect: Will Have Been Bitten

500

Not ending a sentence with a preposition, avoiding slang terminology, and avoiding common problems like double negatives are all examples of this.

What is elevating your language/diction?

500
What do MLA and APA stand for?

What are "Modern Language Association" and "American Psychological Association?"

500

The more you read, the easier your paper is to write. In general, this number of pages you read will translate to one written page.

What is ten?