CSUN Resources
Writing Skills
Analysis Skills
MLA Formatting
General Trivia
100

Where students can go if they need help with an assignment (writing OR math)

What is the LRC?

100

These are the two things that thesis statements should be

What is specific and arguable?

100

A note taking type involving underlining key words/ideas on the actual text

What is annotation?

100

The length that margins of an MLA paper should be

What is one inch?

100

A violent act that is also the name for a group of crows

What is (a) murder?

200

The building in front of Shake Smart

What is the SRC?

200

A thought that CANNOT stand on its own is also known as a...

What is a dependent clause OR fragment?

200

The rhetorical device that establishes credibility of the writer/speaker

What is ethos?

200

The name of the top LEFT of a paper (your last name and the page number)

What is a header?

200

An artist famous for cutting his ear off and for his whimsical art style

Who is Vincent Van Gogh?

300

A program students can contact if their laptop breaks

What is the Device Loaner Program?

300

"I like apple pie, but pumpkin is my favorite" is an example of a....

What is a compound sentence?

300

A word that means "implied meaning"

What is subtext?

300

The second most popular font type and size besides Times New Roman 12

What is Arial 11?

300

The profession that SpongeBob's original creator, Stephen Hillenburg, started in

What is a marine biologist?

400

Where students can go on campus if they're feeling sick

What is the Klotz Center?

400

The SECOND step of writing conclusions (as discussed in SI)

What is synthesizing, not summarizing?

400

One (of three) social constructs most important to analyze media with

What is gender/class/race?

400

The name for the opposite of an indent that is used in the works cited page

What is a hanging indent?

400
A famous physicist/chemist who was the first woman in history to get a Nobel Prize

Who is Marie Curie?

500

The center that supports and accommodates for disabled students

What is the DRES center?

500

This academic vocabulary word's definition is: something that significantly stands out

What is salient?

500

The two ways language comprehension/analysis can be divided

What is literal and figurative?

500

"According to Jones (12),...." is an example of a(n)...

What is a NARRATIVE in-text-citation?

500

The number of his own children Cronus, king of titans in Greek mythology, ate

What is five?