Research Writing
Grammar II
200

Information from these type of sources are good for current events or opinionated articles based in research, but are not considered scholarly.

What are newspapers or magazines?

200

This sentence error occurs when a sentence is missing a subject, a verb, or a complete thought

What is a Fragment?

400

These includes research articles or analytical essays written about an event or topic, usually citing other sources to build a persuasive or analytical claim. 

What is a secondary source?

400

This sentence error occurs when two or more clauses are joined without proper punctuation. 

What is a run-on sentence?

600

Using peoples' ideas in your paper without citing them and giving them proper credit constitutes this. 

Plagiarism. 
600

All proper nouns in English should be this. 

What is Capitalized?

800

These include first hand reports of research findings, diaries, letters, and original poetry, plays etc.

Primary Sources

800

This type of "voice" occurs occurs when you make the object of an action into the subject of a sentence. That is, whoever or whatever is performing the action is not the grammatical subject of the sentence. It creates a "distance" between the reader and what is happening in a sentence, and is often associated with use of "to be" or "being."

What is Passive Voice?

1000

This seems like causality (the cause of something) but is actually just a coincidence of timing. 

Correlation

1000

When a sentence is not properly balanced in terms of its verb or noun tenses, it is referred to as this.

What is an unparallel sentence?