Everybody Knows
Capitalized
Reference to an original source
Used to around words written or spoken by someone else; also used around the titles of short literary works such as articles, short stories, poems
Quotation Marks
From a story, nonfiction text, poem, or article;
quotation marks are always needed when the words are not your own
Direct quote
Refugee
"American Stories are Refugee Stories"
MLA style bibliography page
Works Cited
Used when writing in-text citations
Parentheses
Putting an author's ideas into your own words
Paraphrasing
Wikipedia
"Wikipedia as a Site of Knowledge Production"
That's stealing someone's idea!
Plagiarism
APA style bibliography page
References
Placed after an in-text citation that comes at the end of a sentence.
Period
Writing all the major points of a text; no minor details
Summary
Big Trash Can
"Living Simply in a Dumpster"
Not "Essay 1" but "Writing is Easy as Pie"
Creative Title
Another term for "in-text citation"
Parenthetical citation
Used after a signal word like “said,” “states,”
The author Nguyen argues that refugees are not just relocated but dislocated from their lives.
Paraphrase
Google it!
"Is Google Making Us Stupid?"
Don't use "Wikipedia" as your source because ______!
It's not a reliable source / it's peer-generated / it's not college-level source
Some pet psychologists argue that cats are indeed more intelligent than dogs (Rodriguez 128).
In-text citation
Used to indicate that words or sentences have been left out of the middle of a quotation.
Type of evidence that is numerical or quantitative
Data or statistic
U.S. education is mean!
"Educator: In Finland, I realized how 'mean-spirited' the U.S. education system really is."