Using the "policeman" instead of the "police officer."
What is gender bias?
100
The students were asked to sit quietly, complete the exam, and return the scantron to the instructor. The students wondered what concept the above sentence represents.
What is parallelism?
100
The student that corrects this sentence are smart cookies!
What is "students that correct" or "is a smart cookie?"
100
Snow White edited the paper written by the seven dwarfs. When referencing her work, Doc writes ... S. White (Ed.)... but Grumpy believes it should be ... White, S. (Ed.)... Snow wants to ace her paper in 333 and selects the right dwarf.
Who is Doc?
100
The student are eager to take their final exam but do not know whether they can use a source other than their course books.
What is "yes?"
200
Wondering if "Loving the 333 course at TU." is a correct sentence?
What is "no?" (it is a sentence fragment or an incomplete sentence)
200
The missing component of the following sentence and citation: "Early onset social anxiety disorder results in high rates of comorbidity with alcohol abuse and major depression" (Kessler, 2008).
What is the page number?
200
Student A wonders if the commas are required in the following sentence:
Student A, who was sitting on a chair, answered the question correctly.
What is "YES?"
200
Rapunzel writes a theme statement for her five to ten-page paper: My hair is too long.
She wonders how Lears will grade this theme statement.
What is too short - needs more detail and an arguable platform?
200
The students want to gather in groups of 12-15 to complete their final exam but are not sure if that number is appropriate.
What is "no?" (the final exam is completed without assistance from any other person)
300
Freud wrote of two urges___an urge of union and an egotisitc urge. This punctuation mark is used to fill-in-the-blank.
What is a colon? (or what is a bowel?)
300
Oh noooo - the student cannot find a page number for his or her source and does not know what to do!
What is use a paragraph number?
300
Another student wants to know whether the commas are needed in the following sentence:
The student, who answered the question correctly, is sitting in the chair.
What is "No?"
300
Rapunzel believes Lears is wrong to require a seven page paper. Rapunzel wants to write a 7 page paper. She wonders what Lears will say about the formatting of her number.
What is the formatting is incorrect? (the number 7 should be written as seven)
300
The students want to have only 30 seconds to answer each question on their final exam but do not know what Lears has decided about the time allotted per question.
What is two minutes per question?
400
"The staff conducted a survey" is preferred over "The survey was conducted by the staff" due to this type of verb voice.
What is active voice?
400
What is incorrect in the following statement:
Lears & Biehls decided to allow the same amount of time to complete the final exam.
What is the ampersand (&)?
400
All of the students want to know which author appears first in the reference list: Brown, J. R. or Browning, A. R.
Who is Brown, J. R.?
400
Sleeping Beauty received a personal communication from the Prince and wants to include the communication in her reference paper. Sleeping Beauty wonders how Lears will grade the entry.
What is "wrong?" (personal communications only are cited in-text, not in the reference page)
400
The students want three hundred questions on their final exam but think that Lears will ask four hundred questions.
What is the final exam will have 40-45 questions?
500
The data suggests that the verb of this sentence ("suggests") should be _________.
What is "suggest?"
500
The seven dwarfs ask the 333 students how to cite the paper they wrote this year.
What is Doc et al. (2012)?
500
The correct citation for an author who publishes two manuscripts in the same year is:
Lears, M. K. (2009a) and Lears, M. K. (2009b) or
Lears, M. K. (2009 1) and Lears, M. K. (2009 2)
What is Lears, M. K. (2009a) and Lears, M. K. (2009b)?
500
Sleeping Beauty found a fabulous reference for her paper but cannot find a date for the reference anywhere. What's a princess to do!
What is note (n.d.) after the author's name?
500
The students have worked hard in this course but are not sure that Lears agrees with that statement.