The Writing Process
An example of a prewriting or brainstorming technique (any example)
What are freewriting, looping, clustering, outlining, going to the Writing Center, etc.?
The appropriate way to use another author's exact words.
What is quotation?
Passing off someone else's words, ideas, or other creative work as your own, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
What is plagiarism?
What is a scholarly source?
The punctuation mark used to indicate a quote within a quote.
What is a single quotation mark (or what is an apostrophe)?
The rhetorical term for the person or people who will read your writing.
What is audience?
Putting another author's ideas in your own words.
What is paraphrase?
What is MLA?
Any source that has not been formally peer reviewed, such as a newspaper or magazine article.
What is a popular source?
A short phrase used to indicate who said or wrote something, such as "The author writes" or "Smith explains that"
What is an author tag?
Making significant changes to the content or structure of a draft.
What is revision?
The three components of PIE
What are point, information, and explanation?
The citation style most used in social sciences such as psychology or sociology.
What is APA?
The words you use to search a database for articles.
What are search terms?
An approach to grammar which involves describing language as it is used, rather than making judgments about "right" or "wrong" language
What is descriptive grammar?
Making small, sentence-level changes to things like word choice or punctuation.
What is editing?
Two ways to respond to a counterargument: saying "no, you're wrong" or "yes, you're right, but..."
What are refutation and concession?
The citation style most often used in history courses.
What is Chicago style?
An approach to grammar which involves making judgments about "right" or "wrong" use of language.
What is prescriptive grammar?
After completing a draft, identifying the focus of each paragraph in order to revise for organization.
What is reverse outlining?
Two words that refer to the sense that the paper "flows" and that it has a consistent focus.
What are coherence and cohesion?
The order in which sources appear on an MLA works cited.
What is alphabetical?
The two numbers which tell you which edition of a journal an article comes from.
What are volume and issue number?
The official name for the "dot dot dot" used to indicate that something has been cut from a quotation (...)
What is an ellipse?