Writing Scavenger Hunt
Joseph Reagle
Complete or correct the following using our writing guide at https://reagle.org/wh
For example:
This relationship had already existed before Adobe purchased the company.
This relationship had already existed before Adobe purchased the company.
— trim redundancies
- Balance:
“Cross-training involves many exercises, such as running, swimming, and weights.”
- Punctuate: “Nearly
everyone has heard of love at first sight but I fell in love from a distance.”
- Defragment: “The
archaeologists work slowly. Examining and labeling hundreds of pottery shards.”
- Punctuate: “Curie
discovered radium, and later applied her work on radioactivity to medicine.”
- Punctuate: “Along the wall are
the bulk liquids sesame seed oil and honey”
- Usage: “My father
continuously urges me to get a job.”
- APA: “In his 2012 book Rheingold
said ‘be net smart’ on page 56”
- Punctuate:
“He said, ‘Mary ran to the store’”
License
Feel free to use this deck under the CC BY-SA
license.