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Quotes/Commas,
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What is a “claim?”
A 100
The thesis, driving concern, or question in an academic
paper. Remember, the claim can be complex and can take the entire essay to elucidate. That is often the purpose of an essay, to elucidate rather
than prove.A 100
A 200
What do you call the ideas you present in support of
your claim?
Evidence
A 200
What is a “warrant?”
A 300
a warrant is technically “authorization.” In this case, the warrant is your explanation for
how the evidence you have provided supports or elaborates
upon your thesis/claim.
A 300
True or False. A claim can be a question.
A 400
True. A claim can absolutely be a question.
A 400
True or false. Writing an academic paper is more about
using the proper form than your ideas.
A 500
False. There are many successful formats. Ideas are crucial to an essay’s success.
A 500
Quoting is when…
B 100
You use someone else’s exact words in your paper.
B 100
How do you properly cite a quote?
B 200
You put quotes around the exact words and include a parenthetical citation at the
end.
B 200
What is paraphrasing?
B 300
When you use another person’s ideas in your paper,
but rephrase them in your own words. You give credit to the author of the ideas by
properly citing them.
B 300
B 400
What is required to paraphrase correctly?
Rephrasing someone else’s ideas in your own words and
using a parenthetical citation. A page # is not necessarily
required.
B 400
When do you quote, rather than paraphrase?
B 500
When what you are recalling is so moving, powerful, shocking,
beautifully worded or well stated that changing it into your own words would cause it to lose its
dramatic effect.
B 500
When do you paraphrase?
C 100
Basically, any time you want to use information that is not yours and it isn’t worthy of
quoting.
C 100
Which is the more common error in writing: Not using
enough quotes, or overusing quotes when paraphrasing
would work fine.
C 200
Overusing quotes
C 200
Is this sentence properly cited?
“I went to school in my mother’s car” (Smith 11).”
C 300
No. You don’t need quotes after the parenthetical
citation. “I went to school in my mother’s car” (Smith
11).”
C 300
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Is this sentence properly cited?
“What they carried varied by rank.” (O’Brien).
C 400
No. You don’t need punctuation inside the quotes.
“What they carried varied by rank.” (O’Brien).
C 400
Put quotation marks where needed:
He told me, the surgeon put it this way, I can fix it.
C 500
He told me, “The surgeon put it this way, ‘I can fix it.’”
C 500
Which is correct.
Who is supposed to take out the garbage?
Whom is supposed to take out the garbage?
D 100
Who is supposed to take out the garbage?
D 100
Which of the following is a singular pronoun?
IEverybodyAnyone.
She
D 200
All of them are. All indefinite pronouns are
singular.
D 200
Is this sentence correct?
Everyone went home to get their raincoats.
D 300
No. Everyone is indefinite and therefore singular.
Everyone went home to get his/her raincoat.
D 300
What is wrong with this sentence?
Lisa and Jen wanted to take her car.
D 400
It’s unclear whose car we are talking about.
D 400
Is the following a linking verb or an action verb?
Hear the roar of the jet engines.
D 500
Action
D 500
Linking or action. The passengers were waiting
for take off.
E 100
Linking.
E 100
Is this a correct sentence?
Just as Pam was putting her book bag away, a dog runs
past her.
E 200
No. There is a verb “tense shift”
Just as Pam was putting her book bag away, a dog runs past her.
E 200
Do question marks go inside our outside of quotations?
E 300
It depends.
He said, “What’s the big deal?”
Who said, “to be or not to be, that is the question”?
E 300
What is the subject and verb in the following sentence?
Through the looking glass of life gazes the thoughtful
mind.
E 400
Mind gazes…
Remember, subject and verb can appear anywhere in a
sentence.
E 400
Where do semicolons and colons go, inside or outside
quotation marks?
“Don’t leave any answers blank”; he added “That is one of the important strategies.”
.E 500
Colons and semicolons go outside.
E 500
Where do periods and commas go, inside quotation marks or
outside?
“Yes.”
“Yes”.
F 100
INSIDE. The only exception is when you have a citation. The period is
then moved to the end of the parenthetical citation.
“Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds” (Thoreau 145).
F 100
Do you differ from a person’s views, or differ with a
person’s views?
F 200
You differ with someone’s views. If it’s an idea, you
differ with it.
F 200
Are you occupied with other people or occupied by them?
F 300
Although you are with other people, you are occupied by them. You are occupied with
things you own, like your ipod.
F 300
Why is a comma used in this sentence?
To begin with, the restaurant is hard to find.
F 400
It’s an introductory phrase.
F 400
Why is a comma necessary in the following sentence?
I arrived on time, but the elevator was broken so I
missed the meeting.
F 500
Because a complete sentence, or independent clause, follows the word “but.”
F 500
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