A punctuation mark indicating a pause between parts of a sentence. It is also used to separate items in a list and to mark the place of thousands in a large numeral.
What is a comma?
100
An often confused or misspelled verb meaning "to have an influence on; to impress or to move; to produce a change in something or someone."
What is affect?
100
A list of all your research for a paper organized by author's name.
What is a reference page?
100
These must be identical to the original, using a narrow segment of the source. They must match the source document word for word and must be attributed to the original author.
What is direct quotation?
100
You should spell these out unless the abbreviation is more commonly known than the spelled-out version.
What are units of measurement?
200
A word that takes the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
200
A comma placed immediately before the coordinating conjunction (usually and, or, or nor) in a series of three or more terms.
What is the Oxford (or serial) comma?
200
Direct quotes of 40 words or longer should be placed in this form within an essay and should be used sparingly.
What is block quote?
200
This involves putting another writer's main idea(s) into your own words, including only the main point(s). These are significantly shorter than the original and take a broad overview of the source material. Once again, it is necessary to attribute ideas to the original source.
What is summarizing?
200
The style we use for press releases and articles written for news outlets.
What is Associated Press style?
300
A punctuation mark used to join two independent clauses in a sentence.
What is a semicolon?
300
Example: In a sentence you are writing, a phrase comes between the subject and the verb. The verb agrees with the subject, not with a noun or pronoun in the phrase.
What is subject/verb agreement?
300
It is a best practice to use lowercase letters for the words of an article's _____ on a reference page.
What is title?
300
The use of copyrighted material that is not considered infringement.
What is fair use?
300
When composing lists, you should NOT use this punctuation mark to separate the items of the series.
What is a semicolon?
400
Each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling.
What is a homonym (or homophone)?
400
This construction occurs when you make the object of an action into the subject of a sentence. That is, whoever or whatever is performing the action is not the grammatical subject of the sentence
What is passive voice?
400
Whenever a statistic such as a date, money amount, percentage, or other number is used, a(n) _____ citation should be included within the sentence.
What is in-text citation?
400
This involves putting a passage from source material into your own words. Usually shorter than the original passage, this takes a somewhat broader segment of the source and condenses it slightly. It must also be attributed to the original source.
What is paraphrase?
400
Job titles (unless used as a proper noun), career pathways, specialty areas, and classes (unless the name itself is a proper noun outside of its use as a class name), should be formatted in this way.
What is lowercase?
500
Word-processing programs turn the two hyphens into an unbroken line that’s roughly the width of a capital “M” — hence the official name of this punctuation mark.
What is the em-dash?
500
A word that means "to go before" in Latin. It gets its name from the idea that a pronoun refers to something previously mentioned in the sentence.
What is an antecedent?
500
Often described as "the opposite of paragraph formatting," the individual references on an APA reference page are given a .5" indentation beneath the left-justified first line.
What is hanging indent?
500
A good rule to keep in mind when referring to another person's ideas in your own work.
What is the Golden Rule?
500
When a document containing URLs will be placed for electronic publication, it should contain these items.