This term refers to a formal, objective, and evidence-based style of prose used by scholars in a university setting
Academic Writing
This is the act of presenting the words, ideas, or images of another as your own, violating ethical standards
Plagiarism
This note-taking strategy involves a significant reduction of the original source into a concise overview
Summarizing
APA uses this specific citation system to link in-text indicators to the full reference list
Author-Date Citation System
Academic writing typically avoids these, which include words like "I," "me," and "my"
Personal pronouns
On the Plagiarism Spectrum 2.0, the infraction becomes more serious as the bar reaches this color
Red
This is the act of putting someone else's ideas into your own words while maintaining approximately the same length and meaning
Paraphrasing
This type of citation incorporates the author's name directly into the grammar of the sentence
Narrative Citation
This core characteristic of academic writing requires the use of non-emotive and precise language.
Objectivity
This type of plagiarism involves engaging a third party to complete an assignment and representing it as one’s own work
Contract cheating
This panel in Turnitin reveals the overall Similarity Score and a list of matching sources
Match Overview
For a work with three or more authors, you use this abbreviation after the first author's name in every citation
et al.
Unlike a bibliography, which lists works for further reading, this list provides a reliable way for readers to identify and locate specifically cited works
References
This occurs when students work together on an assignment meant for individual assessment.
Student Collusion
This punctuation mark is used in direct quotes to indicate that you have omitted or shortened the original text
Ellipsis
If the author of a work is not named, this specific word is used as the author only if it is explicitly designated on the work
Anonymous
The APA style manual helps show this quality in a writer by demonstrating accountability to their source material
Credibility
This serious infraction involves falsifying or fabricating data to improperly appropriate work
Data Plagiarism
Often the biggest challenge in research writing, this involves combining evidence from multiple sources to establish a topic or gap
Synthesizing
When citing multiple works in one parenthetical citation, they must be separated by this punctuation mark
Semicolon