What contemporary resources are available for you to check an author's background, in an effort to learn if he or she

has a bias?

novels

Internet

card catalogs

microfiche

A style in which a writer makes a display of his knowledge is called?

Which sentence contains a restrictive clause? The road, which was long and winding, took us deeper and deeper into the dark forest. The parrot, which must have been tame, flew out of the tree and landed on my shoulder.

The most common linking verbs are

What sense does this excerpt evoke? You know that feeling you get when you take a big bite of horseradish or wasabi or whatever, and it feels like your sinuses are closing at the same time as your windpipe, filling your head with trapped,

You are the shift leader at a fast food restaurant. Two employees named Tonya and Johnny get in a fight. Tonya left out a bunch of food, but Johnny got blamed and had $15 taken off his paycheck.

According to Cugoano, where does he get his ideas about slavery from? He gets his ideas from other formerly enslaved people. He gets his ideas from his family and friends. He gets his ideas from his formal education.

What does logical mean

The OED is a good example of an abridged dictionary.

Humans and many other organisms don't live in water. Why might a person make a statement that all life is aquatic?

Read this passage:There's one other alternative-one that takes both skill and courage: Forgoing any cradling action, grasp the cone more firmly between thumb and forefinger and extend the other fingers so that they are out of the way of the dripping