MLA Format
Grammar
Professional Writing
Descriptive/Informative Writing
Miscellaneous!
100
The font and size that all MLA writing should be.
What is 12" Times New Roman?
100
"the easter seals parade will cross st paul's st, which is west of neil ave." Capitalize the necessary words.
What is The, Easter, Seals, Parade, St., Paul's, St., Neil, Ave?
100
Specifies your goal or purpose on a résumé.
What is the objective?
100
The overall emotion(s) conveyed through writing.
What is tone?
100
The types of people that comprise both informal and formal audiences for professional e-mails.
What is informal: family, friends, co-workers (sometimes) and formal: employers, teacher/professor, co-workers (sometimes).
200
The name of the piece of information found in the top, right corner of each page.
What is the header?
200
The three most commonly used words to connect both dependent and independent phrases, and their technical name.
What are the conjunctions and, but, or?
200
When one person shakes with a limp hand.
What is the dead-fish handshake?
200
The five types of sensory language.
What is touch, taste, smell, sound, and visual imagery?
200
The average time that a potential employer or recruiter initially spends looking at a resume.
What is less than 10 seconds (about 6 seconds)?
300
The four pieces of information contained within the heading in the correct order.
What is the student's name, teacher's name, class, and due date?
300
"Everyone thinks that their kid is going to be the next singing or acting sensation." Revise this sentence to be grammatically correct.
What is "Everyone thinks that his or her kid is going to be the next singing or acting sensation?"
300
The necessary pieces of information to gather from a reference.
What is full name, position title, company name, (work) address, (work) phone number, (work) e-mail, contact preference, and brief description of relationship?
300
The difference between summarizing and paraphrasing.
What is summarizing is a general overview of all main ideas whereas paraphrasing is a focused rewording of a single main idea from a source.
300
"Jenny chose the biggest pumpkin that she could find." Name the direct object of the sentence.
What is pumpkin?
400
Two ways to credit a source with in-text citations.
What is citing within the sentence itself or in parentheses at the end of the sentence.
400
Every dog, cat, and hamster destroys (its/their) owner's possessions at some point in time. The correct pronoun is...
What is its?
400
Five interview Don'ts to avoid.
What is chew gum, arrive late, have cell phone in purse/pocket, dress inappropriately, forget to thank the interviewer, etc...?
400
Specifies the topic, opinion, and main ideas without being persuasive or argumentative.
What is a declarative thesis statement?
400
The percentage that quotations should comprise of an entire essay.
What is 10%?
500
The abbreviation used to indicate that neither a publisher nor a sponsor name has been provided when creating a Works Cited.
What is n.p.?
500
The Smith family loves to go camping ( ) therefore, they go to Green Acres campsite every summer. Fill in the missing punctuation.
What is a semi-colon?
500
The abbreviation of this title is CV.
What is curriculum vitae?
500
Elements that enable a reader to identify the purpose of an essay.
What is the type of language used, the topic itself, the level of detail, and/or the tone.
500
The pieces of information included in a basic book citation, in order.
What is author's name, title, city of publication, publisher, year of publication, and medium of publication?