Working With Sources
Failure to include a citation for information used from another scholar’s work would be this academic integrity violation.
What is plagiarism?
On a Reference or Works Cited page, the format includes this type of indentation.
What is a hanging indent?
A SWOT analysis discusses these four things.
What are Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats?
A proposal's purpose is this.
What is to get approval to pursue a project.
This kind of research question isn't very useful. It asks who, what, when, how many, true, false. It can’t be explored beyond the answers to those questions.
In other words, you can’t argue about it.
What is a closed question?
This is a list of sources that includes a brief summary and an evaluation underneath each citation. It may also include plans for possible use of the source.
What is an annotated bibliography?
This type of citation appears following a quote or at the end of a sentence where a quote has been used. It is generally noted in parentheses.
What is an in-text citation (or parenthetical citation)?
In an audience analysis, you would NOT typically include which of these three things:
Why you are writing about your subject.
What you want from your audience.
A literature review.
What is a literature review?
What section of your proposal did I call "your proposal in miniature"?
What is The Executive Summary?
This is the name of the website where our project will be posted.
What is The Maryville 104?
This type of source is a scholarly work written by experts that has been evaluated and validated by other experts in the same field before publication to ensure its accuracy, quality, and significance to the discipline.
What is a peer-reviewed journal article?
This is a unique id that is used to identify journal articles, datasets, etc. and provide a permanent link to its location. It serves as a source's "social security number."
What is D.O.I or Digital Object Identifier?
The SWOT Analysis is typically used for this discipline (area of work or study).
What is business and/or marketing?
This section includes:
Why the project is important.
Foreseeable problems.
Plan for solving the problems.
Assurance that you are aware of obstacles, but are confident that you'll finish the project.
What is the conclusion?
This is the name for a group of words placed before the main clause to provide context, setting the stage, time, or manner for the sentence.
It lacks a subject-verb pair and is typically followed by a comma, such as in "After the long meeting, the team finally took a break".
What is an introductory phrase?
The letters in the CRAAP Test (a popular media literacy test created by California State University Chico) stands for these five words.
What are currency, relevance, authority, accuracy, and purpose?
What format of citation is this:
Lim, Taewook, et al. “Consumer Response to Climate Change: Wildfire Smoke and Sustainable Product Choice.” Journal of Marketing Research, vol. 62, no. 6, June 2025, pp. 1142–58. https://doi.org/10.1177/00222437251352490.
What is MLA?
Our Audience Analysis consisted of these three sections.
What are the Introduction, SWOT, and Conclusion with Strategy?
These are the six sections required in your proposal assignment (excluding the References page).
What are the Executive Summary, Literature Review, Goals & Objectives, Project Schedule, Detailed Next Steps, Conclusion
This is an active reading technique involving marking up a text—through highlighting, underlining, or writing in the margins—to improve comprehension, retain information, and engage with the author
What is annotation?
Stitching together parts of different sources to create your text without crediting your source is this type of plagiarism.
What is Patchwork (or Mosaic) Plagiarism?
This is a capitalization style where only the first word of a sentence, title, or heading—along with proper nouns—is capitalized. It is typically used in APA citations, but not in MLA citations.
What is sentence case?
When defining an audience, a writer includes information including age, gender, religion, occupation, education, etc. What is the term for these defining traits?
What is "demographics"?
This section of a proposal condenses and summarizes your research and states the general consensus of what it says about your topic.
What is the literature review?
This is a condensed restatement of a text’s main ideas in your own words, focusing on the "gist" while excluding specific details, examples, and personal opinions.
What is a summary?