Topics, Issues, Definitions to Know for the Final
This first part is pretty much like the midterm :: Elephant sections will be showing up shortly.
- Have your Reference Sheets--the test is technically open book, but if you have to find things you're going to run out of time. Ref Sheets are turned in as 25% of the test score, so have them neat, legible, and ready to turn in.
- Pocket dictionary
- Your text and a style manual, but again, if you have to look much up, you could be in trouble. But you can bring them just to reassure yourselves too--in case you have time to check something.
- Copy-editing, with a Stylesheet
- Restrictive--Non-Restrictive Clauses
- Transitive/Intransitive Verbs
- Possessives, Possessive Forms
- Colons, Semi-colons
- Series Comma
- Parallelism
- Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex Sentences
- Dangling Modifier
- Misplaced Modifier
- Faulty Predication
- Internal Non-Restrictive Clause (Parenthetical, Appositive)
- Numbers
- Symbol Format (Money, Percent, etc.)
- Dashes, Hyphens
- SVA - subject-verb agreement
Elephants of Style Stuff
- SVA
- sing-plur consistency
Grammar "lies"
- Using first person
- passive-active
- apostrophes
- doctor's offices 103
- affect-effect
- that-which
- then-than
- a-an
- insure, ensure, assure
- omitting 'the' in acronyms
- acronym then (word), or word (acronym)?
- numbers & measures: million dollar rule, acre/measurement, 2 gallons drink vs two gallons bought
- them's fighting words 133-45
- spin wins
- cliches
- longer-than-two-word modifiers
- gender
- hyphenation 121-132
- adj. noun 121-132
