This descriptive summary usually appears before the main text of a journal article.
What is an abstract?
100
This is how the entries in an MLA-style "Works Cited" page should be ordered.
What is alphabetically?
100
If the wording of a passage you would like to cite is significant or otherwise memorable, you should incorporate it into your own writing by doing this.
What is quoting?
100
This bubbly prewriting strategy is a way of generating ideas and creating visual connections between them.
What is clustering (or webbing)?
100
This is the term for a group of grammatically related words that lacks a subject or predicate.
What is a phrase?
200
The suitability of an article for publication in a scholarly journal is determined via this process, whereby the piece is evaluated by independent experts in the author's field.
What is the peer review process?
200
The right-hand-side MLA header should include the page number and this.
What is the author's last name?
200
Effective paraphrasing entails changing not only the wording of a sentence, but this aspect, too.
What is the structure?
200
This section of an essay should grab the reader's attention, indicate the topic, provide a small amount of necessary context, and set up the thesis statement.
What is the introduction?
200
You can remember the coordinating conjunctions—the seven words that can connect two independent clauses with a comma—using this mnemonic device.
What is "FANBOYS"?
300
ProQuest, Academic Search Premier and JSTOR are examples of this.
What is a database?
300
In an MLA-style “Works Cited” entry, the title of a journal article is punctuated using these.
What are quotation marks?
300
Using another writer's words or ideas without attribution constitutes this violation of academic integrity.
What is plagiarism?
300
Just like a thesis statement anticipates the main point of an essay, this strategic device introduces the main idea of a paragraph, ideally with reference to the essay's overarching thesis.
What is a topic sentence?
300
This group of grammatically related words contains a subject and a predicate.
What is a clause?
400
This service enables students and faculty to obtain sources not held by the OSU library.
What is interlibrary loan (or ILLiad)?
400
If the author is indicated in the signal phrase, then this piece of information may be all you need in the parenthetical citation.
What is the page number?
400
If you are interested in the main idea of a source, but not the details, you should incorporate it by doing this.
What is summarizing?
400
As well as providing closure, this part of an essay should revisit the thesis in light of the evidence and consider the broader implications of the argument.
What is the conclusion?
400
This piece of punctuation, like a period, can connect two independent clauses without a coordinating conjunction.
What is a semi-colon?
500
This important personage can help you find appropriate databases, refine your search terms and/or obtain hard-to-get sources!
What is the reference librarian?
500
The third line of the left-hand-side MLA header contains this important piece of information.
What is the name of the class?
500
Quoted, paraphrased and summarized material must be cited in the text, as well as here.
What is in the "Works Cited"?
500
Incorporate these handy words or phrases to ensure your essay flows smoothly from sentence to sentence and from paragraph to paragraph.
What are transitions?
500
"Although," "as," "since," "whether" and "while" are examples of this type of word, which subordinates the clause it precedes.