8th grade vocab 1

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Across
  1. 3. / start (a line of text) or position (a block of text, table, etc.) further from the margin than the main part of the text.
  2. 5. / is text that is separated from the body text and appears at the top of a printed page. ... In academic writing, the running head usually contains the page number along with the author's last name, or an abbreviated version of the title.
  3. 7. Man's best friend
  4. 8. / formatting which stands for Modern Language Association, is defined as a style of writing used for college-level writing. An example of MLA style is the specific formatting for footnotes in a college paper.
  5. 10. statement that connect one topic or idea to another in a paper or essay in a smooth, coherent way.
  6. 12. / the main body of a book or other piece of writing, as distinct from other material such as notes, appendices, and illustrations.
  7. 15. / add new items to the program's interface, or give the program additional capabilities.
  8. 16. / the text is spread out to be flush with the left and right margins or to the left side margin or right side margin.
  9. 17. statement / should tell your reader what the paper is about and also help guide your writing and keep your argument focused.
  10. 19. styles / includes both character and paragraph formatting attributes, and can be applied to a paragraph or range of paragraphs.
  11. 21. Flying mammal
  12. 22. / place or arrange (things) in a straight line.
  13. 23. / widow" is the last line of a paragraph that appears alone at the top of the next page, and an "orphan" is the first line of a paragraph that appears alone at the bottom of a page. Default widow and orphan settings are typically configured for two lines in order to prevent isolated single lines.
  14. 24. Likes to chase mice
  15. 25. (font) / describes how characters are capitalized within a word or phrase. "Font" refers to the typeface used to display the letters, while "case" refers to the capitalization of each letter.
Down
  1. 1. setup / is a set of specific parameters involving the display and layout of a printed page. This type of resource is part of many modern word processing applications and other document processing software.
  2. 2. Large marsupial
  3. 4. / is a specific typeface of a certain size and style. For example, one font may be Arial 12 pt bold, while another font may be Times New Roman 14 pt italic.
  4. 6. Has a trunk
  5. 9. / a list of the books of a specific author or publisher, or on a specific subject.
  6. 11. / is a section located under the main text, or body. Traditionally it was and still is the space for the page number.
  7. 12. / sentence a sentence that expresses the main idea of the paragraph in which it occurs.
  8. 13. / a quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work.
  9. 14. Spacing / is the vertical distance between lines of text. Most writers use either double-spaced lines or single-spaced lines—nothing in between—because those are the options presented by word processors.
  10. 18. is the area between the main content of a page and the page edges. The margin helps to define where a line of text begins and ends.
  11. 20. / use of a source of information in order to ascertain something.