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?