Cite it Right
This type of citation goes at the end of a sentence and requires the author's last name & page number.
What is an in-text citation?
Identify the professional write: "A list of skills and qualifications for a specific job."
What is a resume?
Repeating consonant sounds at the beginning of words, e.g.,“Sally sells seashells by the seashore.”
What is alliteration?
Identify the capitalized part: “BECAUSE IT WAS RAINING, we stayed inside.”
What is a dependent clause?
When people buy cheap gifts and exchange them in a game of round-robin
What is a White Elephant gift exchange?
These citations are located on a separate page after your essay and lists all sources used.
What is a works cited page?
Is an overview of your resume that includes a letter of introduction.
What is a cover letter?
Giving human traits to non-human things, e.g., The wind whispered through the trees.”
What is personification?
Identify the sentence type: “I wanted to go to the movies, but I had too much homework.”
What is a compound sentence?
This movie character's cat exploded when it chewed through the Christmas lights
Who is Griswold?
Using someone else’s words without quotation marks or citation is called this.
What is plagiarism?
Writing with a greeting, subject line, body, and closing, often for professional communication.
What is an email?
Exaggeration for effect, e.g., “I have a million things to do today!”
What is hyperbole?
Identify the prepositions: “She walked across the street, past the bakery, and into the café.”
What are across, past, into?
The 1900s decade that canned cranberries first came about.
What is the 1920s?
According to Orwell, ‘Big Brother is watching you’ (23).” Which type of citation is bolded?
Answer: What is a parenthetical citation?
What is an introductory phrase?
Writing that explains step-by-step how to make or do something, like “How to Bake Chocolate Chip Cookies.”
What is a technical write?
What is a 'how to?'
Using one thing to represent another, e.g., “The flag stands for liberty & justice for all.”
What is symbolism?
Comma rule needed: “We bought apples oranges bananas and grapes.”
What is commas are needed with items in a list?
The founding father who wanted a Turkey to be America's National bird.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
According to Orwell, ‘Big Brother is watching you’ (23).” Which type of citation is bolded?
What is a parenthetical?
True or False: Most professional letters, recommendation letters, and scholarship essays are NOT formatted in MLA style.
What is true?
Repeated vowel sounds is what kind of figurative language?
What is assonance?
Comma rule needed: “My brother, who loves chess, won the tournament last weekend.”
What is commas are needed to set off appositive phrases?
What is plumbers?