Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the “Submit my answers” button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:

Academic essays tend to be highly logical, clear logical reasoning is very persuasive.
a) no error
b) run-on sentence
c) comma splice
d) sentence fragment

Question 2:

In the humanities disciplines, scholars mostly use a deductive structure and a thesis statement. While in the social sciences or science disciplines, scholars prefer to use an inductive structure and a hypothesis.
a) sentence fragment
b) run-on sentence
c) comma splice
d) no error

Question 3:

In “Simplicity,” William Zinsser argues that cluttered writing is bad writing, however it can be fixed by eliminating all unnecessary or unclear words.
a) no error
b) run-on sentence
c) sentence fragment
d) comma splice

Question 4:

Expository essays accurately summarize the existing knowledge on a topic, argumentative essays summarize the existing knowledge and make an argument about the topic.
a) comma splice
b) run-on sentence
c) no error
d) sentence fragment

Question 5:

Drew Hayden Taylor’s critique of Stephen Harper’s apology. Argued that it is insufficient to the task.
a) comma splice
b) sentence fragment
c) run-on sentence
d) no error

Question 6:

Richard Wagamese is an Ojibway First Nations’ poet, novelist, and journalist in “Returning to Harmony,” he critiques Canada’s residential school system.
a) no error
b) comma splice
c) sentence fragment
d) run-on sentence

Question 7:

Revision is essential to good writing, consequently it is important to develop a revision process that works.
a) comma splice
b) no error
c) sentence fragment
d) run-on sentence

Question 8:

It is important to revise essays at the following levels. Content, structure, and editing.
a) comma splice
b) no error
c) run-on sentence
d) sentence fragment

Question 9:

Successful academic essays use language that is clear, concise, and grammatically correct unsuccessful academic essays are unclear, wordy, and grammatically incorrect.
a) run-on sentence
b) sentence fragment
c) comma splice
d) no error

Question 10:

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson considers the way in which personal narratives can be used to effect change, specifically she considers how they can change the way we see people with disabilities.
a) no error
b) run-on sentence
c) comma splice
d) sentence fragment

Question 11:

Although the reading material assigned in academia will cover many genres. The most important genre to master is academic writing.
a) run-on sentence
b) no error
c) sentence fragment
d) comma splice

Question 12:

Undoubtedly, humans have an obligation to care for animals, the nature of these obligations vary and should not be mistaken for rights.
a) comma splice
b) no error
c) sentence fragment
d) run-on sentence

Question 13:

When Regan argues that it is wrong to use animals as our resources, he is targeting animal agriculture, hunting, and experimentation.
a) comma splice
b) sentence fragment
c) run-on sentence
d) no error

Question 14:

Democracy is a word that is difficult to define as in practical terms it can mean many things. From liberty and equality to dictatorial control and manipulation.
a) no error
b) sentence fragment
c) comma splice
d) run-on sentence

Question 15:

In “Cathedral,” Raymond Carver uses the cathedral as a symbol it illustrates the need to “see” beyond the merely visible.
a) run-on sentence
b) comma splice
c) no error
d) sentence fragment

Higher Education

Writing in the Academic Disciplines: Sentence Fragments, Comma Splices, and Run-on Sentences