Class
Period
1
Room
Number
519
Teacher
6
517
Maria
8
228
Fangio
Flanigan
Midterm review
On the day of the midterm:
Be on time!
Bring a sharpened
#2 pencil!
MLA Formatting
Spacing (text)
Margins
Header or Heading?!!
Works cited page citations
In-text/parenthetical citations
Common writing errors
Passive and active voice
Dropped quotes
Misplaced or dangling modifier
Passive and active voice
Passive voice: subject receives the
action of the verb(s): Example: The
ball was thrown by the pitcher.
Active voice: The subject is doing the
action: Example: The pitcher threw the
ball.
Which is preferable and why?
Why use active voice?
promotes conciseness.
promotes clarity.
promotes strong verb usage.
Why use passive voice?
When the focus is on the action
OR
the agent is unknown
Decide what voice each sentence uses
(passive or active)
1. Retailers nationwide and around the world
carry many types of snowboards, and the
consumers possess an immense choice in
specially made snowboarding gear.
2. In 1965, the Snurfer (a word play on snow
and surfer) was developed by inventors as
a child’s toy.
3. A collection of snowboarding tricks and
stunts was released on video in 1996.
4. From the first crudely built snowboards to
the advanced and specialized models
available today, snowboarders have carried
a bad boy image.
The 3 I’s of quoting and paraphrasing
Introduce
Incorporate
Interpret
Dropped or introduced?
Harriet Jacobs, a former slave
from North Carolina, published
an autobiographical slave
narrative in 1861. She exposed
the hardships of both male and
female slaves but ultimately
concluded that "slavery is terrible
for men; but it is far more terrible
for women” (Smith 83).
Dropped or introduced?
Holden gets frustrated and
decides to leave. "People are
always ruining things for you"
(Salinger 88). Thus, Holden
reveals his pessimistic nature.
What’s missing?
Gatsby is not to be
regarded as a personal
failure. "Gatsby turned out
all right at the end"
(Fitzgerald 176).
What’s missing?
Holden gets frustrated
and decides to
leave. "People are
always ruining things for
you.” Thus, Holden
reveals his pessimistic
nature.
Misplaced Modifier
Word, phrase or clause that seems to
refer to an object in the sentence that it is
not meant to refer to because of its
placement in a sentence.
Example: I had to take down the shutters
painting the house yesterday.
Question: What, according to the above
sentence, is painting the house?
Corrected
Painting the house yesterday, I
had to take down the shutters.