MLA Format
What side should your name go on the essay?
left
Which sentence is written in a formal style and uses an objective tone?
Increasing the availability of books to children can help improve their reading skills.
Some crabs cleverly disguise themselves by attaching pieces of sea plants and animals to their backs.
Which word most precisely matches the meaning of disguise as it is used in the sentence?
camoflauge
Read the excerpt from “Virtual Reality Gets Real.”
During a recent demonstration of Google Cardboard—a DIY headset that’s made of cardboard and uses a smartphone for the display—I found myself by turns atop a rocky peak, in a barn next to a snorting horse, and on a gondola making my way up a mountain. The gondola ride gave me vertigo.
We react like that, experts say, because our brains are easily fooled when what we see on a display tracks our head movements. “We have a reptilian instinct that responds as if it’s real: Don’t step off that cliff; this battle is scary,” Jeremy Bailenson, the founding director of Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, told me. “The brain hasn’t evolved to tell you it’s not real.”
What kinds of evidence are used in this excerpt, and how does this evidence support the excerpt’s point?
A quotation from a field-specific scientific expert is used to support why the human brain perceives virtual reality like actual reality.
The definition and explanation of Google Cardboard are used as evidence of all the possible uses of virtual reality.
What should you have with you when begging a test?
A glass of water, maybe a little snack
what goes at the top right of the page?
Your last name and the page number
Which would be the best format to use to request a raise in pay?
a formal letter
Read the sentence.
The audacity of that person, to stand up in the middle of a movie and walk around talking on a cell phone, incensed the other audience members.
What does the word audacity mean as it is used in this sentence?
arrogant disregard
Read the excerpt from “Natural Beauty at Risk.”
By combining these climate projections with information about topography and soil moisture and composition, Jantz and Rogers are exploring how the suitability of habitats may change for 40 eastern tree species. Their modeled projections are based in part on extensive field observations collected by the U.S. Forest Service. Rogers and Jantz are combining all of this information into a comprehensive vulnerability assessment, aimed at land managers, that is designed to facilitate planning and decision making.
Which technical phrase in the excerpt best describes the scientific findings that Rogers and Jantz would put into a report?
extensive field observations
what do you do if you get unfocused in between the test?
Some short activity that makes you come back and focus.
What is the font size?
12
Brandon wrote this sentence in an essay.
Everyone in the stadium rose to their feet.
In peer review, Cara changed their to his or her, but Brandon disagreed. Why are both Brandon and Cara correct?
Our language is changing, and many style guides now permit either their or his or her to follow everyone.
What is a correct definition of the word misconception?
an incorrect conclusion
Read the opening paragraph of “Virtual Reality Gets Real.”
In 1965, Ivan Sutherland, a computer-graphics pioneer, addressed an international meeting of techies on the subject of virtual reality. The ultimate virtual-reality display, he told the audience, would be “a room within which the computer can control the existence of matter. A chair displayed in such a room would be good enough to sit in. Handcuffs displayed in such a room would be confining, and a bullet displayed in such a room would be fatal. With appropriate programming, such a display could literally be the Wonderland into which Alice walked.”
What uncertainty about virtual reality is suggested by this paragraph?
It is unknown how people might react psychologically to a simulated reality that would appear to be real and scary.
What should you do the prior night?
study and sleep well
What is the spacing?
double space.
You are writing an informational essay about climate change and want to include a map showing which areas of the world will be most affected.
Where in your essay is the best place to include this information for maximum impact on your readers?
You are writing an informational essay about climate change and want to include a map showing which areas of the world will be most affected.
Where in your essay is the best place to include this information for maximum impact on your readers?
Which sentence uses the word logistical correctly?
The army’s campaign was hindered by logistical problems as supplies failed to reach the front lines and troop ships encountered storms.
Read the excerpt from “This Virtual Lab Will Revolutionize Science Class.”
So we started looking around for new, innovative teaching methods, but what we found was quite disappointing. We saw that books were being turned into e-books, blackboards were being turned into YouTube videos and lecture hall monologues were being turned into MOOCs—massive online open courses. And if you think about it, all we’re really doing here is taking the same content and the same format, and bringing it out to more students—which is great, don’t get me wrong, that is really great—but the teaching method is still more or less the same, no real innovation there.
How does the information in the excerpt build on the idea that students learning science in universities are bored, disengaged, and confused about what they are learning?
It explains how intended innovations in classroom instruction are not really improvements, giving students no new reasons to become more engaged.
What can you use during your test?
notes
Which line needs to be indented for your citations?
the second line and all following
What are the most effective ways to use a slideshow as a multimedia component in an informational text?
to explore detailed information to support main points
to highlight specific ideas from the content
In which sentence is the word affluence used correctly?
The CEO wanted to be known for more than her affluence, so she started a foundation aimed at cleaning up the world’s beaches.
Read the paragraph from “This Virtual Lab Will Revolutionize Science Class.”
So we started looking around for new, innovative teaching methods, but what we found was quite disappointing. We saw that books were being turned into e-books, blackboards were being turned into YouTube videos and lecture hall monologues were being turned into MOOCs—massive online open courses. And if you think about it, all we’re really doing here is taking the same content and the same format, and bringing it out to more students—which is great, don’t get me wrong, that is really great—but the teaching method is still more or less the same, no real innovation there.
In this paragraph, which idea is implied but not directly stated?
There is an inherent lack of originality in the way that content is taught to students.
What should you not do before the test?
overload yourself with worry by trying to study everything at once.