A willingness to face objections to one's own beliefs.
What is critical thinking?
100
The central argument of an essay is called this.
What is a thesis?
100
The word "the" belongs to this part of speech.
What are articles?
100
What do we call a structure with one subject and one predicate.
What is a simple sentence?
100
The name of the wiki that our class uses.
What is PBWorks?
200
Finding the parts of the problem and then separating them, trying to see how things fit together.
What is analysis?
200
All essays should start with _____ and end with ________.
What is an introduction and a conclusion?
200
You use the "coordinating" subgroup of this part of speech to connect two clauses to create a compound sentence. You also need to add a comma.
What are coordinating conjunctions?
200
What do we call a dependent clause if it is presented as a sentence?
What is a fragment?
200
In addition to registering for PBWorks, we need to post this to help our class members to get to know us.
What is a profile picture?
300
Judging the merit of our claims and assumptions and the weight of the evidence in their favor.
What is evaluation?
300
To focus your paragraphs, it is a good idea to start with one this.
What is a topic sentence?
300
You use a word like "with" in combination with a noun (or object of this part of speech) to create a phrase that includes this part of speech in its name.
What is a prepositional phrase? (as in "with friends")
300
When we use a subordinating conjunction to connect two independent clauses, we get this type of sentence.
What is a complex sentence?
300
We are writing this number of major essays for this class.
What is 4?
400
A brainstorming method using bubbles to list and organize thoughts.
What is clustering?
400
A thesis is to an essay as a topic sentence is to this.
What is a paragraph?
400
This part of speech changes an independent clause to a dependent (or subordinate) clause when it is attached.
What is a subordinating conjunction?
400
Name the sentence error in this example: I love studying different disciplines in CORE, we learn some very interesting things in this class.
What is a comma splice?
400
When you write an essay, you should always consider this.
What is __________?
500
What famous thinker said the following: "What is the hardest task in the world? To think."
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
500
Quotes or source material should be surrounded by this.
What is commentary? or What is material to add context?
500
Name the part of speech to which "therefore" belongs.
What are conjunctive adverbs?
500
When we start a sentence with this part of speech, we offset it with a comma.