Writing Conventions
True or false: the thesis statement should only be one sentence
What is false?
The president of USC
Who is Carol Folt
This contemporary art museum in Downtown LA offers free general admission
What is the Broad?
Kwame Ture was born with this name before changing it
What is Stokely Carmichael?
The WP 4 deadline
December 3
This usually follows a piece of evidence in college essay writing and offers a novel perspective or reading of the evidence
What is analysis?
This USC library is famously featured in the film The Graduate (1967)
What is Doheny library?
This high school has an oil derrick on campus (and makes $300,000 a year from it)
What is Beverly Hills High School?
The title of bell hooks's essay
"A Revolution of Values: The Promise of Multicultural Change"
The building and room number of this class
Grace Ford Salvatori 112
Submitting part of an essay you have submitted for another class would be this
What is plagiarism?
This library is open 24 hours on weekdays
What is Leavey?
Los Angeles's population (as of 2019)
What is 3.967 million?
What kind of grammatically incorrect sentence is this? I like going to the park one time I went to the park and I saw some geese but they were mean
What is a run-on sentence?
If you abide by the grading contract, this is the lowest grade you can get
What is a B?
True or false: for in-text citations, the parenthesis should contain the author's name and the year of the article
What is false?
The statue in the village
The year of the Zoot Suit Riots
What is 1943?
This kind of punctuation mark can connect two independent clauses
What is the semi-colon? (also a comma, as long as you add a conjunction)
Office hours are available on this day and at this time
What are Tuesdays at 3 pm?
This tool can be used to help writers create more complex theses
What is the Sheridan Baker Thesis Machine?
USC's total amount of students for the 2021-2022 year
What is 49,500?
Los Angeles hosts this street--the steepest in California
What is Eldred Street?
What is a murder?
The section number of this class
What is 64545? (Or 64545D)