Netiquette
Report Writing 101
Research and Citation
Public Speaking 101
Anything But "Mr. Smith"
400

Historically used for personal reasons, this type of application is now often used by companies to reach customers and stakeholders... Have you learned the latest dance?

Social Media

400

This type of report is simply used to record the facts of an event, incident, accident, or activity at work.

Informational Report

400

APA is an acronym that stands for this.

American Psychological Association

400

This public-speaking method is practiced with little-to-no preparation ahead of time.

Impromptu Method

400

Hmm... He's kind of a nerd, but Dr. Smith is also a big fan of this American football team.

Buffalo Bills

800

It's not a text bro... In professional settings, an email adopts the same format and conventions as this genre of writing.

Letter Writing

800

Research reports adopt many similar conventions to this genre of writing... Not Shakespeare again!

Essays

800

In an APA-style report, the bibliography section contains this title at the top of the first page.

"References"

800

In this public-speaking method, a presenter can recite an entire speech, seemingly naturally, word-for-word without consulting notes.

Memorized Method

800

Although friends shorten his name to "Kal," Dr. Smith's first name was originally this type of name.

Maiden Name (or, Mother's Last Name)

1200

"Best wishes," "Kind regards," and "Sincerely" are all examples of this in a professional email.

Closing Salutation

1200

This type of report is often composed by more senior members of hospital staff; not just reporting the facts but interpreting them too!

Analytical Report

1200

The abbreviation "et. al." stands for "et alias," which loosely translates to mean this.

And Others

1200

In this public-speaking method, the presenter is practiced enough to speak with limited notes and can also go off-script to elaborate.

Extemporaneous Method

1200

I think Dr. Smith is older than he acts in the classroom some days... He's actually this age.

34

1600

This term refers to the not-so-hidden trails that we all leave behind on the internet.

Digital Footprint

1600

A new paragraph in any style or genre of writing will always begin with this type of sentence.

Topic Sentence

1600

This type of prepositional phrase is used to introduce and contextualize information from another research source.

Signal Phrase

1600

Ugh, that professor just reads off the slides! In this public-speaking method, the presenter has written everything in advance but only practiced enough to keep their general tone and delivery smooth.

Manuscript Method

1600

Before completing his doctoral degree at McMaster University, Dr. Smith studied at this institution.

University of Toronto

2000

Workplaces are required by law to keep an archive of their employees' activity online through these... "ISPs" for short.

Internet Service Providers

2000

When recalling a short-term memory, human beings repeatedly 'decode' the language of our own inner monologue and restore it as this type of memory.

Long-Term Memory

2000

More commonly regarded as "in-text citations" by postsecondary students, professional researchers refer to them as these.

Parenthetical Citations

2000

The vast majority of human beings only retain approximately this percent of information spoken aloud during a lecture or seminar presentation.

10%

2000

Outside of the classroom, Dr. Smith's research focusses on the literature of this century.

Seventeenth [and] Eighteenth Century (1660-1830)