Miscellaneous
This is the correct pronoun to refer to a brand or company.
What is "it?"
The dash "-" comes in two varieties. Name them.
What are "em dash" and "en dash?" (-- and -, respectively, also known as a "dash" and a "hyphen")
The paragraph symbol, ¶, has a proper name. It is called ______.
What is a pilcrow?
MLA stands for this.
What is "Modern Language Association?"
If you are quoting something, you should quote it EXACTLY, even if it includes grammatical errors. If you do, make sure you include this phrase, which indicates that you are aware of the errors, but did not alter the quote in any way. The word means "thus" or "just as" in Latin.
What is [sic]?
People often confuse "affect" and "effect" with one another. The easy to remember them is that "affect" is this part of speech, while "effect" is this one.
What are verb and noun, respectively?
This symbol means "and" and is drawn like "&." What is its proper name?
What is an ampersand?
The dagger and double dagger († and ‡) are punctuation marks that are used after this symbol has already been used for a footnote.
What is the asterisk? (*)
When citing a section of text, you must make it a "block quote" (also known as a "pull quote") when it is this.
What is more than four lines in length?
This element should sometimes be included in a citation, and sometimes not, depending upon your style guide. It is the ONLY part of a citation that is optional.
What is a URL?
When writing, "i.e." is the shorthand reference for this.
What is "that is" or "in other words?"
When adding information to a quotation that was not normally there, a writer should use these punctuation marks.
What are brackets? [ ]
This typography symbols is never used in text, only in computer code or mathematics.
What is the backslash? "\"
The Mnemonic device "Authors Tell People Details" refers to the order of elements in a bibliographic citation. Name these (in order).
What are "Author, Title, Publisher, Date?"
APA citations must include a number known as a DOI, which helps find an item online. What does DOI stand for?
What is a digital object identifier?
When writing, "e.g." is a shorthand reference for this.
What is "for example?"
Spell the correct plural form of URL.
What are URLs?
The Guillemet (« and »), a rarely encountered punctuation mark, means that the text enclosed inside them has had this done to it.
What is translated from another language?
An editor or translator must be listed on a bibliographic citation. These people are listed after the container and before the publisher, and are known as this.
What are contributors?
A backward question mark was used by Henry Denham in the seventeenth century, after which it fell out of favor. It was used following this type of statement.
What is a rhetorical question?
This often-misunderstood word is used to describe someone on the receiving end of an action.
What is "whom?"
§ is called the "section symbol" and is used in this area of writing.
What is legal writing?
Nursing majors, this one's for you! The degree symbol, (º), is used to indicate temperature, alcohol proof, longitude and latitude, diminished quality in music notation, or, in medicine, this.
What are hours?
You may never alter the meaning of a quote when you use it. However, you MAY add and subtract irrelevant detail. If you omit something non-important, you must replace it with this.
What are ellipses? (...)
Define "antediluvian."
What is "a time period occurring before the Biblical flood?"