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Higher Order Concerns
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MLA Formatting
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Miscellaneous
100
This is a helpful way to examine the organization or structure of a piece of writing.
What is outline?
100
This is another name for a serial comma.
What is the Oxford comma?
100
The MLA style refers to the method of writing research papers recommended by this group.
What is Modern Language Association?
100
In addition to the author's name and page number, this information is expected in an APA citation.
What is the date of publication?
100
This is an easy acronym for memorizing coordinating conjunctions.
What is FANBOYS?
200
This is who one should keep in mind whenever writing.
Who is one's audience?
200
This is the correct spelling of the homophone that refers to a leader, not a law.
What is P-R-I-N-C-I-P-A-L?
200
This is the highest number of lines one can have in a quotation before blocking it.
What is four (4)?
200
This group dictates how writing should be structured in APA formatting.
What is the American Psychological Association?
200
This is an easy way to identify prepositions.
What is what a mouse can do to a house, what a plane can do to a cloud, etc.?
300
This is where the thesis statement is most often located.
What is the last sentence in the introduction?
300
This is the difference between effect and affect.
What is effect is a noun meaning "something brought about; a result" and affect is a verb meaning "to have an influence on; to impress or to move; to produce a change in something or someone"?
300
This is another phrase for in-text citation.
What is a parenthetical reference?
300
This indicator should always precede the number in an in-text citation.
What is "p."?
300
This is the difference between active and passive language.
What is active language is more direct, concise, and vigorous than passive language? For example, in an active sentence, the subject is doing the acting: “Bob fixes cars.” In a passive sentence, the target of the action becomes the subject of the sentence. For instance, instead of saying, “Bob fixes cars,” I might say, “The cars are fixed by Bob.”
400
This is a great way to inject personality into writing.
What is add voice?
400
This is the point-of-view that should be avoided in academic writing.
What is second person?
400
This is the best time to use past tense in MLA formatting.
What is when one is writing about history/the past?
400
This is the portion of an APA paper in which a writer should provide a brief overview.
What is the abstract?
400
This is the best reason why writing consultants do not proofread or edit writing.
What is because it inhibits the writer's learning?
500
This is where writers indicate their purpose.
What is the thesis statement?
500
This type of punctuation is used to indicate that something stated is word-for-word from the original text.
What is quotation marks?
500
A writer should do this to the title of a short story.
What is put it in quotations?
500
This is the page where the words "Running Head" should appear.
What is the first page only?
500
This is the abbreviation of the Latin term meaning "that is."
What is "i.e."? "E.g.," means for example.