MUG Errors
I went to the store the post office and the library.
What are commas after store and office? (Or, what is a comma after store?)
Name one thing to ask yourself before writing.
What is ____? (Answers vary.)
True or false: sources should be listed in alphabetical order on a Works Cited page.
What is true?
True or false: a website's design and text can help a writer determine whether it is credible.
What is true?
True or false: a thesis statement can be a question.
What is false?
Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley are the protagenists in the Harry Potter novels.
What is "protagonists" is misspelled?
Name another thing to ask yourself before writing an essay.
What is _____? (Answer varies.)
A citation for a source where Alice Miller is the author, the publication year is 2017, and the text is from page 17.
What is "(Miller 17)"? (Without quotation marks.)
A writer should look at this when determining whether a website is credible.
What is _______? (Answers vary.)
In order to become a critical reader, a student should identify these two things before reading an article/book/etc.
What are ____ and ____?
Answers vary but can include the author's purpose, audience, bias, credentials, etc.
Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark the victors of the 74th Hunger Games were pawns in [Spoiler's] plan.
What are commas after Mellark and Games?
Name a third thing to ask yourself before writing an essay.
What is ____? (Answer varies.)
If an article doesn't provide an author's name, it should be listed by this on the works cited page.
What is the article's title?
A writer should look at these two things when determining whether a website is considered credible.
What are ____ and ____? (Answers vary.)
A writer's thesis statement and essay must answer this question.
What is, "So what?" (Variations of this question are also acceptable.)
My latte tastes disgusting. You better remake it, or I will report you to your manager, Karen said.
What are quotation marks before "My" and after "manager"?
The rhetorical triangle includes Logos, ______, and _____.
What are Pathos and Ethos?
It is not necessary to use the author's last name in a parenthetical citation under this circumstance.
What is when there is no author or when the author was named in a signal phrase?
Wikipedia can be a helpful research source if a writer uses ____.
What are the linked references at the bottom of the article?
To incorporate information or text from outside sources in an essay, one can do these three things. (Think verbs.)
What are quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing?
Being well rested, eatting healthy meals and snacks, and taking mental health breaks are the kees to surviving finals weak.
What are: hyphens between "well-rested" and "mental-health," "eating," "keys," and "week"?
Logos stands for _____; Pathos stands for ______; and Ethos stands for _____.
What is the word, the audience, and the credibility?
Or
What is the logical appeal, the emotional appeal, and the ethical appeal?
This is the type of indent one uses when listing sources on the Works Cited page.
What is a hanging indent?
Instead of relying solely on sources from .com websites, a writer should also look at websites that end in .____. (Three answers.)
What are .edu, .gov, and .org?
A thesis statement should have a subject and a/an _____.
What is an opinion or assertion about the subject?