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PART 1 and Part 2 FINAL MYSTERY CHALLENGE

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Academic Writing Challenge

Test your knowledge of academic writing with this engaging quiz! Whether you're a student looking to improve your skills or a teacher assessing your students' understanding, this quiz covers essential topics in grammar, formatting styles, and proper sentence construction.

With a variety of questions, you can expect to learn about:

Pronouns in academic writing
MLA and APA formatting standards
Common grammatical errors
Sentence structure techniques

13 Questions3 MinutesCreated by WritingWizard42

Which pronoun should you never use in an academic essay?

Them

You

Herself

Which would be a better to way to write this sentence: If you like dinosaurs, you should study paleontology in college.

If one likes dinosaurs, you should study them in college.

If you like dinosaurs, you should study them in college.

If one likes dinosaurs, one should study paleontology in college.

If one likes dinosaurs, they should study paleontology in college.

Which sentence is a run-on?

Global warming is a serious issue it is talked about a lot in politics.

Many people would like to see less pollution, but it difficult to control.

Pollution could be lessened if people drove cars less.

Cars omit many pollutants, airplanes do as well.

Which sentence has a comma splice?

In the winter, it snows giant snowflakes.

In the summer, the sun is so hot, and it can burn the skin.

Autumn is a beautiful time of year, leaving me excited for winter.

Spring is lovely, the blossoms are bloom on the trees.

Choose the sentence that is missing the comma because it is compound.

The singers took the stage and sang their hearts out.

They sang three new songs in the auditorium.

They sang jazz, motown and soul.

They won first place and they took home a shiny trophy.

Choose the sentence that needs a comma because it is complex.

In the war the soldiers fought tirelessly.

They were exhausted since they did not get much sleep.

In fact they even fell asleep at their posts occasionally.

Because they fell asleep they would get in trouble from the officers.

MLA requires you to use which size font?

If you use MLA formatting, you should have a:

WORKS CITED

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Which answer keeps verb tense consistent?

Sarah ran to the park. She jumps on the swings.

At the park, Sarah jumped on the swings after she ran to them.

Sarah swings up high while she jumped on them.

During the summer, Sarah jumped on swings and runs to the slide.

In APA format, the writer should:

Have a cover page

Single space the document

Include a works cited

Make the font 11

Which in-text citation is correct for APA formatting?

(Johnson, pg.12).

(Johnson, 2020).

(Johnson, "Pollution is Harmful").

(Johnson, pg. 12, 2020).

Which sentence has a participial phrase?

The ice melted, causing the levels to rise.

The ice melted in the Artic.

In the oceans, the ice is melting.

The ice will melt if the Earth continues to warm.

Which sentence needs a comma before the participial?

The cats played with dogs barking at the mailman.

The horses galloped across the field bucking their riders as they moved.

The cows mooed over the fence.

The mailman threw the mail towards the people walking by.

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