Topics, Issues, Definitions to Know for the Midterm
- 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
