1. Technical Writing Unit Jeopardy!
MLA Citations
Types of Writing
Types of Argument
Essays
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2. MLA Citations 100
This is the how the author’s name is written in an MLA citation.
Last name, First name.
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3. MLA Citations 200
This is how the title of publication is written in an MLA citation of a book or periodical.
Title of Publication
(italicized or underlined)
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4. MLA Citations 300
This punctuation must be present after the place of publication in an MLA citation for a book.
A colon (:)
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5. MLA Citations 400
This is the correct way to write the date a website was accessed in an MLA citation.
Day Month Year
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6. MLA Citations 500 The medium of publication refers to this.
Print or Web.
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7. Types of Writing 100
This type of writing uses specific techniques to convince readers of the writer’s opinion.
Persuasive writing.
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8. Types of Writing 200
This type of writing interests the reader by telling a story.
Narrative writing.
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9. Types of Writing 300
This type of writing primarily uses adjectives and adverbs.
Descriptive writing.
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10. Types of Writing 400
This type of writing uses information such as surveys, graphs, and facts.
Expository/Technical writing.
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11. Types of Writing 500
This is the author’s opinion, which may affect the facts, words, or arguments the author uses in writing.
Author’s bias.
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12. Types of Argument 100
This type of argument, also known as pathos, appeals to the reader using feeling.
Emotional argument.
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13. Types of Argument 200
This type of argument, also known as ethos, uses well-known or important figures to appeal to the reader.
Authority argument.
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14. Types of Argument 300
This type of argument, also known as logos, uses facts, statistics, and other proof to appeal to the reader.
Logic argument.
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15. Types of Argument 400
Each writer has his or her own composing process. 2) Some writers produce formal outlines before they begin writing a story or novel. 3) Ernest Hemingway, too, wrote many of his stories and novels sitting at a table in a busy café in Paris.
Authority argument.
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16. Types of Argument 500
“With this television, I probably wouldn’t have seen anything and I probably would never have made a film.”
Emotional argument.
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17. Essays 100
The opening paragraph of an essay should contain these two sentences.
A hook and a thesis statement.
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18. Essays 200
These are the two pronouns you should try not to use in an essay.
I and you.
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19. Essays 300
These are directly connected to your thesis statement and they include evidence to support your ideas.
Body paragraphs.
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20. Essays 400 This is a question your conclusion should try to answer.
Why is it important to discuss this topic?
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21. Essays 500 This is what the letters ACE mean. Answer the question.
Cite evidence from the text.
Expand, extend, and explain.
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22. Grab Bag 100 This is the error in the following MLA citation:
Montana, Hannah. “Team Building in Youth Sports.” June 2007: Physical Education Magazine. 23–27.
The date is in the wrong place.
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23. Grab Bag 200
The following paragraph is an example of this type of writing.
“Each morning, dew glistens on the grass. The sun yawns, scanning the horizon for companion clouds. Perched high in ancient oak trees, starlings and sparrows announce a new day.”
Descriptive writing.
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24. Grab Bag 300 Tecumseh uses this type of argument most in the passage.
“Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make the all for the use of his children?”
Logic argument.
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25. Grab Bag 400 The following is an example of this type of writing.
“In her novels, McCullers presented a world of dark characters on the fringes of Southern society. But interviews with those who knew McCullers say that was not the world she knew.”
Persuasive writing.
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26. Grab Bag 500 The excerpt is an example of this type of writing.
“John Steinbeck, born in 1902 in Salinas, California, is considered one of the greatest American authors. Famous for suck works as Tortilla Flat, The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck artfully created believable characters living real life, and in doing so, brilliantly captured the strength and determination of the human spirit.”
Expository/Technical Writing
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27. Final Jeopardy!
Create the correct MLA Citation using the following information. Good luck.
The novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen was published in 1813 by Whitehall Company in London. I used some pages in my expository essay last week.

28. Final Jeopardy Answer
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. London: Whitehall Company, Print.