Sunday, December 11, 2011

On the final exam

PRACTICE QUIZ
1. purpose of MLA header? what if you forget? what goes in it and where?

2. purpose of MLA parenthetical citation? format? for plays? punctuation?

3. purpose of works cited? format?

4. purpose of essay title? format?  punctuation? conventions? colon? what should it include?

5. purpose of 's? conventions and rules? plurals?

6. why does surface correctness matter? to readers? to graders? to employers?

7. How many errors can you find by careful proofreading? 100%? 80%? 50%? How can you correct errors you can't spot?

8. Define thesis statement. How general or specific should it be?

9. DEfine topic sentence. What should it include and not include?

10. Define fragment and how to fix it.

11. Define comma splice and how to fix it.