AP Lit 2013 SURVIVAL MANUAL TOP TEN LISTS
Group: Heart of Darkness
Typist: Adrienne Manbeck
MSF
1.You can fix typos with white-out and black ink, but you
may only have 3-4 corrections per page.
2, Periods must line up in an outline.
3. Do not print on both sides of the paper.
4. You need at least four lines of text for a block quote.
5. Heading should be in regular type face
6. The title of an outline should be the same as the title of
your essay. It should not include the word “Outline.”
7. Months longer March or longer should be abbreviated to
the third letter.
8. In an outline, there must be at least two subtopics in
order to create a subtopic.
9. The intro and conclusion in your outline should have at
least two major subdivisions.
10. Don’t use auto formating to format an outline.
2 Questions
1. What do you do if there’s only one detail you want to say
on a topic in an outline?
2. Why is it important to use a font like Times New Roman?
Group: Things Fall Apart Typist: Lydia Bausch
Parenthetical Documentation & Quotations Top Ten
1. Format: “ ” ( ). Only if it’s at the end of the sentence
unless the quote is a question or exclamation.
2. If the quote is on multiple pages of the source, you put the
first page-last page it occurs on. Ex (21-22).
3. Direct quotes are typed EXACTLY as found in the
source.
4. If you need to change punctuation, capitalization, spelling
or it needs to be in brackets.
5. When you quote multiple sources by the same author, the
document has to be in the parenthetical documentation as
well as the author’s name the first time.
6. You can lead in with the variant of the word said, by
embedding, or with a colon.
7. Block quotes don’t have quotations and are indented on
inch on the left
8. Use the author’s name in your sentence the first time you
cite him or her to ensure credibility.
9. You need to parenthetical document even paraphrases.
Paraphrasing is more significant in a paper than using a
lot of quotes.
10. When quoting a different author from one of your
sources, you have to put “qtd. in” in the parenthetical
documentation.
Questions:
1. What is the punctuation if you’re quoting a question
about a quote?
a. …………. “……. ‘……’?” ( ).
2. What do you add in your PDQ to show you’ve quoted a
secondary source?a. (qtd. in Smith 12).
Beowulf GroupTyping: Victor DorobantuWorks Cited 1-19
1. Alphabetize the citations by author last name, or title with citations that have no author.
2. Three facts of publication are city of publication, name of publisher, year of publication in the following format:
New York: Penguin, 2003.
3. If information is omitted, include n.p. for no place of publication, n.p. for no publisher given, n.d. for no date of publication, n.pag. for no page numbers given.
4. Generic order is author, title, series/volume/issue/edition, publication info, inclusive page numbers, and medium of publication
5. Include “Works Cited” as the title on the first WC page, without an MSF header
6. Use ½ inch hanging indentation on all lines of a citation after the first
7. Double space the entire works cited
8. Continue pagination in the upper-right hand corner of the Works Cited
9. Put the Works Cited at the end of the paper
10. If there are 1-3 authors listed, invert just the first author’s last name and first name, list the others first
name then last name. If there are more than 3 authors, invert the first author and then include et al.
STUMPERS:
What comes first if there is both an edition number and a volume number?The edition number
What are two conditions when page numbers must be included?When sources are contained within a larger work, or if a print source has been transferred online
Owen Meany Priyanka ShahMLA Works Cited Pg. 20-46
1. Do Not Use URL’s for web sources
2. Use Youtube when you can establish credibility
3. For Scholarly Journals you need to include volume and
issue number, but not for newspapers and magazines
4. Capitalize important words in a title, regardless of the
original writing in the title
5. 7th Edition MLA requires that you note missing
information from web sources
6. When citing a sound record or video, put the name of the
most relevant person first
7. For news papers, you do not need to include the name of
the city if it is in the title of the paper
8. For sources accessed on the web but also in a print
version, you should cite it as a print resource and include
web information.
9. For Reviews, insert “Rev. of” after title
10. For Editorials or Letters, it is the same format as
any other article but you need to include: descriptive
label, editorial or letter after the title
QUESTIONS TO STUMP:
What distinguishes a print magazine article from a scholarly
journal citation?
Which name goes first when citing a video?
TYPIST: Leanne
Top 10 Things to Know about PDQ Section 2
1. If four or more authors are included, list the first,
followed by “et al.”
2. If it is a corporate author, use the corporation name
as the author in a parenthetical documentation.
3. When parenthetically documenting an indirect quote,
use “qtd. in” in front of the indirect source.
4. No need to include the author’s name in parenthetical
documentation if it is stated in the lead-in text, but
include the page number in the parenthetical
documentation.
5. When citing a source with no author, use the title of
the work in the parenthetical documentation.
6. When citing a work of poetry, use the line number
rather than the page number in the parenthetical
documentation.
7. When citing a play, use the divisions for more
information in the parenthetical documentation
(act.scene.line number).
8. When citing common works of prose literature,
include the page number followed by a semicolon,
part, and chapter.
9. When citing an entire work, use only the author’s
name in the text or the title of the work.
10. When citing a work with an editor, translator, or
compiler, use their name as the author in the
parenthetical documentation, but clarify in the Works
Cited page that they are not the author.
STUMPER QUESTIONS
1. How do you write a parenthetical documentation for a source with multiple volumes?
2. How do you cite two different works in a single parenthetical documentation?
Frankenstein’s Potluck Top Ten (Typist Maggie Freeland)
1. The editor or translator goes after the title in a works
cited.
2. If more than three authors are listed then write the
first author’s name and then comma et al.
3. If you do not know the writer of a government
publication cite as author the government agency that
published it.
4. Almost and none can be singular or plural.
5. You do not need to use qtd.in for an indirect source if
the context is explained in the lead-in.
6. Ellipses only used in quoted passage at begging or
end if the reader could misinterpret the quote
without ellipses.
7. Do not use the backside of a paper.
8. When citing if there are multiple authors cite all of
them after a quote unless it’s an “et al.” citation.
9. Homonyms are words that are spelled the same but
have different meaning.
10. Homophones are words that sound the same but
have different spelling.
Stumpers
1. Which is correct: page 7 or page seven?
2. What works do not need to be italicized or put in
quotations?
Pride and Prejudice
Grammar Rules
1. Who is always used as the subject of a clause, whom
functions as an object (usually either a direct object or an
object of a preposition)
2. If it’s plural and it ends in “S”, apostrophe goes after the
“S”
3. A comma is needed after an intro word, phrase, or
dependent clause
4. Use semicolons when joining independent clauses
5. Each sentence must have a verb and a subject, otherwise
it will be considered a fragment
6. Titles of short works should be put in quotation marks;
titles of long works shall be put in italics
7. Spell out numbers that can be written in one or two
words
8. If an appositive is essential to the meaning of the sentence
you don’t have to enclose it with commas
9. A dash is used for interrupting a thought, and hyphen is
used for compound modifier.
10. When a quotation consists of multiple of paragraphs,
quotation marks are placed at the beginning of each
paragraph and at the end of the whole quotation, not at the
end of each paragraph.
Questions
1. Incomplete construction: I am like he/him. (circle the
correct choice)
2. Shakespeare’s play, “Macbeth”, is one of my personal
favorites.
Shakespeare’s play “Macbeth” is one of my personal
favorites.
Which of these two sentences is correct?
Group: HamletTypist: Lauren
Buyback Notes
1) You are not allowed to buyback points on CONTENT
errors, only TECHNICAL errors
2) The corrections must be done on a separate sheet of
paper (typed or handwritten), not on the original
3) Go through and consecutively number every error
with an abbreviation -1 or -2 in a different color than
the original corrections
4) The errors that require labeling are fragments, run-
ons, agreements, and pronoun cases.
5) If you fix all of the errors correctly, you will get all of
the mechanic points back
6) Manuscript form errors can be combined into one
buyback
7) The best template for making buybacks is a 6-
columned table in landscape form labeled Survival
Manual Rule #, Error # from paper, Error type, Points
lost, Correction column, and Explanation column
8) To record the technical errors take the yellow sheet
from the file folder and record the number and the
type
9) On the pink sheet in your file folder record your
preliminary grade, teachers comments, and content
and technical goals for the next paper
10) MAKE SURE ALL CORRECTS ARE PERFECT.
Incorrect corrections, corrections with new errors,
and corrections that do not follow the instructions
will not be credited.
Questions:
1) How should you label all of your errors and where
should you record them?
2) How many columns should your buyback template
have and what should they be labeled?