English Final

Prewriting

A process that begins before an actual draft is made and includes thinking, brainstorming, clustering, and outlining.

A working bibliography should be

Alphabetized Double Spaced Reversed Indented

The margins for MLA style should be 1 inch on the top and bottom of the paper, but 1.5 inches on the left and right of the paper

False

The size font acceptable for MLA style is anything between 11.5 and 12.5.

False

The writing process is one that only inexperienced writers use to create their work

False

Outlining is

Provides a skeleton and a roadmap for your paper

To find the proper current formatting guidelines

Purdue owl

A header

Right hand corner of every page

Conclusions

Should act as descenders, drawing to a close

Body Paragraphs

Should have good topic sentences that reflect the thesis and plan, should work to prove the thesis, should have good support, and should have good detail.

What should you use to find scholarly journals in the library?

Specialty data bases such as Magnolia or Ebscohost

The writing process is one which has been used for thousands of years and should be used by writers of all levels and skills

True

Writing is like most skills in that practice and hard work make for a better writer,

True

library skills will be used in most any college level course no matter what the subject may be

True

Audience is

Who you are writing to

Purpose is

Why you are writing

Double spaced

Width between each line of text

Revision

also called editing, means to look at again, can be partially done via a spell and grammar check on the computer

Introductions and conclusions

are considered specialty paragraphs

Topic sentences

are like baby thesis statements, guide the body paragraphs

How can Davind Hasselhoff (Blank) three successful shows?

have

A preview

is a plan for the how of an essay, should forecast what is to come in the essay, should act as a trail map for the reader to follow throughout the essay.

A working bibliography is typically made up of

scholarly sources critical sources

Nouns

A person, place, thing, or idea

The header should include both your full name and a page number.

False

The thinking a brainstorming part of the writing process depend on the audience and purpose of the assignment

True

The works cited page should be the last page of your document and follow in numerical sequence

True

But he is also an excellent Christian role model.

Dependent

Despite whether we win or lose.

Dependent

Not only was Roger Staubach a great athlete.

Dependent

I (blank) understand the allure of this shows

Do not

A gifted writer cannot benefit from the writing process.

False

A good writer will revise a draft exactly 3.34 times.

False

A homonym is a word that means the opposite of another word

False

A pronoun located in a prepositional phrase will always be the subject

False

A topic sentence is like a baby thesis and should have no real connection to the thesis or to the plan as per introduction

False

Because a paraphrase is in the writer's own words, no citation is need to give credit for the original idea

False

Erros in font size, font style, margin size, and header placement are considered some of the most damaging errors you can make in a college level paper.

False

First person is almost always appropriate for formal, academic writing

False

In a formal, academic essay, it is appropriate to use vague pronouns and vague adjectives such as it, a lot, very, many and extremely as much as possible.

False

Pronouns can never replace a noun.

False

Slang, text ease, and emojis are appropriate for formal, academic writing

False

Using contractions is preferred in formal, academic writing because as Shakespeare once said. "Brevity is the soul of wit"

False

When citing a scholarly source within the body of an essay, MLA style calls for the use of brackets. This is called Bracket logic Citation, also known as March Madness.

False

When citing a scholarly source within the body of the essay, MLA style calls for the use of footnotes

False

When dealing with subject/verb agreement, always start with the verb to determine if it agrees with the subject in number.

False

When making a claim in a formal, academic essay, the writer should rhetorically depend solely on emotional appeals

False

When miscommunication occurs between the reader and the writer, it is always the reader's fault.

False

When using parenthesis to cite scholarly sources, it is acceptable to put the author's full name and a paragraph number to indicate where the infonnation is located

False

When writing a formal, academic paper, word choice should be about sounding educated more than sounding clear

False

What should you use to find scholarly e-source in the library?

For scholarly e-journals use data bases like Magnolia or Ebscohost For scholarly e-books use data bases such as eBook Collection or Ebrary

I grew up watching Captain Come-back, Roger Staubach.

Independent

One of the greatest Dallas Cowboys of all time

Independent

The part of a formal, academic essay

Introduction, multiple body paragraphs, and a conclusion

A dependent clause

Is also known as a fragment, missing a subject, a verb or a complete thought, and cannot stand alone

An attention getter

Like a fishing lure, often provides the context for the essay, and can be started in the title of the essay.

A thesis is

Like a rudder on a boat, is the what of an essay, is like an umbrella for the essay topic.

A working bibliography should be formatted in

MLA Style

What should you use to find books in the library

Online catalog

Choose the correctly punctuated sentence

They blew a call against the Cowboys in the 2014 NFC playoff game. They also blew a call against the New Orleans Saints in the 2018 NFC playoff game.

A complete sentence (also known as an independent clause) must have a subject and a verb and a complete thought

True

A primary source is the actual novel, play, poem, song, short story (or any other piece of art) you are working with,

True

A secondary source is a source on or about the author, the primary source, and/or the topic you are trying to research.

True

Cliches like "I at the end of the day," or "That being said" or "It is what it is", "you've got take the good with the bad" are to be avoided in formal, academic writing.

True

In most cases, it is best to write a formal, academic paper in past tence

True

The amount of time one spends thinking, brainstorming, clustering, and outlining depends on the scope of the assignment.

True

The audience for most college level papers should be considered formal and academic

True

The first things to consider when writing are the audience and the purpose

True

The four deadly errors are fragments, subject/verb agreement, and tense errors.

True

The header should appear on every page of the document

True