This piece of punctuation goes after an independent clause and before a coordinating conjunction.
What is a comma?
100
This type of essay is based on personal experience.
What is a narrative essay?
100
This is a word-for-word transcription of a section of someone else’s work without attribution.
What is direct plagiarism?
100
This type of reading takes more time than reading for pleasure.
What is critical reading?
100
This piece of information appears first in a Works Cited entry.
What is the author's last name?
200
This piece of punctuation joins two complete sentences that have similar ideas.
What is a semicolon?
200
This type of essay explains how to do something.
What is a process-analysis essay?
200
This is when a student submits his or her own previous work without permission from all professors involved.
What is self-plagiarism?
200
This strategy involves reviewing the chapter headings, index, and first and last lines of paragraphs.
What is skimming?
200
For a print source, this piece of information must appear with an author's last name in an in-text citation.
What is the page number?
300
This piece of punctuation indicates a direct quote.
What is a quotation mark?
300
This type of essay elaborates on the similiarities and differences between two or more persons, places, or things.
What is a compare and contrast essay?
300
This type of plagiarism is also known as "patch writing."
What is mosaic plagiarism?
300
Critical reading means being aware of examples of this, such as circular reasoning and Post hoc ergo propter hoc.
What are errors of logic?
300
MLA formatting requires this type of indentation.
What is hanging indent?
400
This piece of punctuation separates hours and minutes in a time notation.
What is a colon?
400
This type of essay can explain why something happened.
What is a cause and effect essay?
400
This is when a person neglects to cite sources, misquotes sources, or unintentionally uses similar words, groups of words, and/or sentence structure without attribution.
What is accidental plagiarism?
400
This is used to look up words with which you are unfamiliar while reading critically.
What is a dictionary?
400
A second work by an author listed on a Works Cited page needs this.
What are three dashes?
500
This piece of punctuation ends a declarative sentence.
What is a period?
500
This type of essay proves a point using evidence.
What is an argumentative essay?
500
Plagiarism is a violation of this FRCC code.
What is the Student Code of Conduct?
500
These visual endorsements also need to be read critically.