Foreign Words
What corrections need to be made?
The voyageurs－tough men with natural bonhomie－discovered the shy Castor canadensis, or North American beaver.
Bonhomie and canadensis need to be italicized.
How should you use diagonals when quoting poetry?
To separate the lines.
EX: “A Service, like a Drum— / Kept beating—beating—till I thought / My Mind was going numb—” (Dickinson 6-8).
Where should the brackets be placed in this sentence? “They’d the sweat bees get into your mouth, ears, eyes, nose. You’d feel them all over you.”
Around the sweat bees.
Where should brackets be placed?
“Congratulations to the astronomy club’s softball team, which put in, shall we say, a ‘stellar’ performance.” groans
[groans]
Should A-frame be capitalized?
Yes, the frame is shaped like an A.
What is the exception for foreign words to not be italicized?
The word is in Merriam-Webster or its a noun.
When you're borrowing it from another source.
Where should the brackets be placed?
In his memoirs, the author reveals, “The year we moved into the house 1985 was a difficult one for us, both emotionally and financially.”
Around 1985
Put brackets and parentheses in the places of the slashes.
“It /driving/ imposes a heavy procedural workload on cognition that . . . leaves little processing capacity available for other tasks” /Salvucci and Taatgen 107/.
[driving], (Salvucci and Taatgen 107).
Should B-pillar be capitalized?
Yes, the pillar is shaped like a B.
Which language in scientific articles doesn't need to be italicized because of extensive uses?
Latin
How would you put these lines of poetry from Robert Frost's, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," into an essay?
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," Frost writes, “The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, / But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep."
When using brackets to set off clarifying information, should the bracketed information be a substitution or an addition?
An addition. The information in the brackets should not be able to substitute a part in the sentence.
Is this quoted correctly?
Salvucci and Taatgen propose that “[t]he heavy cognitive workload of driving suggests that any secondary task has the potential to affect driver behavior” (108).
Yep
Should A-game be capitalized?
No, the game isn’t shaped like an A.
How should you treat entire sentences written in a foreign language?
Don’t italicized and put the whole passage in quotations.
What is one way to shorten this line of poetry?
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
“The woods are lovely...but I have promises to keep”
Where should the brackets be placed in this sentence?
The president stated that he “will not sign the bill they Republican members of the House have been talking about.”
Around Republican members of the House
How would you change the verb tense in this quotation?
“Not coincidentally, drivers have been increasingly engaging in secondary tasks while driving” (Salvucci and Taatgen 68).
“Not coincidentally, drivers [are] increasingly engaging in secondary tasks while driving” (Salvucci and Taatgen 68).
When should you capitalize a letter that is set off by a hyphen with another word?
When the word/object is shaped like that letter.
How many times do you need to italicize a word if its used more than once?
Only the first time.
True or False
You cannot cite a poem you found online.
False. You need to cite the poem regardless of where you found it.
Where should the brackets be placed in this sentence?
The media mogul was overheard saying, “I would never do a deal with Acme Corporation's CEO, Wile E. Coyote.”
Around Acme Corporation’s CEO,
True or False
Use brackets to enclose a change in letter case or verb tense when integrating a quote into your paper.
True
If you saw a U-turn, what would the turn look like?
The letter U.