Analytical Skills
The quotes, facts, and data you present in an academic essay.
What is evidence?
The X in the XYZ formula.
What is the position you are arguing against or trying to revise called?
It is the mythical mountain in Elif Shafak's narrative.
What is Mt. Qaf?
It is an extreme high angle.
What is a bird's-eye view?
This is how you format a book title.
What is italicization?
It is what you have to turn in next Friday.
What is your portfolio?
They are the components of an annotated bibliography entry.
What are heading, identification, summary, evaluation, and relevance?
It is the subject Xiaolu Guo studied in Britain.
This is what Eilis Lacey studied at the night school at Brooklyn College.
What is bookkeeping?
A clause that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence.
What is a dependent clause?
They are the five analytical moves.
What are suspend judgment, notice and focus, the method, so what, and reformulating questions and answers.
It is what distinguishes primary sources from secondary sources.
What is a firsthand account/unanalyzed information?
Code-switching.
How do you call the practice of alternating between two or more languages or language varieties?
The sound that characters in a film cannot hear.
What is non-diegetic sound?
It is the order in which the sources in a work cited page should be listed.
What is alphabetical order?
It refers to the way a writer develops a preconceived template and tries to fit everything into it.
What is slot-filler mentality?
They are five of the features that distinguish academic from non-academic sources
What are purpose, author, publisher, audience, style, reference, and peer review? (any 5 out of the 7)
Amy Tan told these two stories to show how her mother faced discrimination because of her accent.
Why does Amy Tan mention her mother's visit to the stockbroker and her experience at the hospital?
It means how scenery and stage props are arranged in a film scene.
What does mise en scene mean?
It is the error in the sentence, "John told Jeff that his neighbor is loud."
What is ambiguous pronoun reference?
They are what you need to find in the third step of the five analytical moves.
What are repetitions, strands, and binaries?
They are three of the requirements when you design an inquiry question.
What is a not easily answerable, answerable by the primary text, non-factual, open-ended, and moderately broad question? (any 3 out of the 5)
Anzaldúa uses this term to describe how people police language, suppressing new and non-traditional varieties of a language.
What is linguistic terrorism?
According to Soonja, these are two of the properties of minari.
What are edible, resilient, useful, healthy, and medicinal? (any 2)
These are the three errors in this sentence: "The team played there best, they are determined to win the tournament."
What are diction error, comma splice, and subject-verb disagreement?