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Writing Guide Scavenger Hunt
Writing Guide Scavenger Hunt
Scavenger Hunt Questions
If you are doing this assignment based on Hacker and Sommers’s A Writer's Reference, do the following (see further below if you are doing this assignment based on the Capella Writing Center):
1. Name the three acts that are considered plagiarism.
2. List the information that should be added to an APA cover sheet.
3. Does the following sentence require a comma or a semi-colon?
The test was difficult it contained questions that I wasn’t prepared for.
Explain
4. Should you use slang or jargon in a business letter?
Explain
5. List the basic points for setting up a page in an APA paper.
6. What is a paraphrase?
7. Where in A Writer’s Reference is the “General Guidelines for the Reference List” located?
8. How would you make the following word into a possessive, a plural?
Student
Explain
9. Move each of the three following words into past tense.
Pass
Locate
Follow
10. Define the term “introductory phrase.”
11. Format the following information about a book and an article into correct APA reference formatting:
Book: John Jones and Jim Jones. A Handbook for the Ages. Cleveland Ohio. 1975, Barnburner Publishing.
Article: The aspects of Business Ethics. John Smith. 1999, Volume 30, number 15, pages 25-33, The Journal of Business Relations.
12. Where would commas be placed in the following sentence?
The class was difficult interesting but fun.
13. The following sentence contains an introductory phrase. Does the phrase need to be set off by a comma?
When the course is concluded you should know how to punctuate a sentence.
14. True or False: References on an APA reference page are not alphabetized. Explain your answer.
15. Placing an apostrophe in the following word makes it into a plural.
Book’s
If you are doing this assignment based on the Capella Writing Center, do the following (see above if you are doing this assignment based on Hacker and Sommers’s A Writer's Reference):
1. Name the three methods of citation used to prevent plagiarism.
2. List the information included on an APA cover sheet.
3. Does the following sentence require a comma or a semi-colon?
The test was difficult it contained questions that I wasn’t prepared for.
Explain:
4. Is it acceptable to use slang or jargon in a business letter?
Explain:
5. List the basic points for setting up a page in an APA paper.
6. What is a paraphrase?
7. Where in the Writing Center are the “General Guidelines for the Reference List” located?
8. Define the term “introductory phrase.”
9. Format the following information about a book and an article into correct APA reference formatting:
Book: John Jones and Jim Jones. A Handbook for the Ages. Cleveland Ohio. 1975, Barnburner Publishing.
Article: The aspects of Business Ethics. John Smith. 1999, Volume 30, number 15, pages 25-33, The Journal of Business Relations.
10. Where would commas be placed in the following sentence?
The class was difficult interesting but fun.
11. The following sentence contains an introductory phrase. Does the phrase need to be set off by a comma?
When the course is concluded you should know how to punctuate a sentence.
12. True or False: References on an APA reference page are not alphabetized. Explain your answer.
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