Source Integration
This is the brief, main idea of a source presented in your own words, often covering an entire article or large section of text.
What is summarizing?
This refers to the facts, statistics, examples, or expert testimony used to back up a claim in an argumentative paper.
What is the evidence used to support a claim?
The presence of a strong one-sided viewpoint or agenda in a source is called this.
What is bias?
MLA requires this information to be included within parentheses for in-text citations.
What is the author's last name and the page number?
This is the most basic format for a MLA Works Cited entry for a book.
What is: Author. Title. Publisher, Year.?
This is the detailed restatement of a source's idea in your own words, maintaining the original length and complexity.
What is paraphrasing?
If a source is written by a well-known individual who specializes in the field, it meets this criterion for reliability.
What is authority or expertise (expert)?
This initial, tentative statement guides your research but is expected to change as you learn more.
What is a thesis?
APA requires this information to be included within parentheses for in-text citations.
What is the author's last name and the year of publication?
The acronym APA stands for this.
What is the American Psychological Association?
This term describes a method of quotation integration that uses an introductory signal phrase, the quote itself, and a concluding explanation/analysis.
What is a "quote sandwich"?
This type of source is reviewed by other subject-matter experts before publication, signifying high credibility.
What is a scholarly or peer-reviewed journal?
This presents the focused inquiry that the paper seeks to answer.
What is a research question?
This feature of an MLA or APA Works Cited page means the second and subsequent lines of an entry are indented.
What is a hanging indent?
The utilization of emotion (guilt, empathy, sense of urgency...) is used alongside of evidence-based research to prompt readers to partake in a call for action. This is called what?
What is Pathos Rhetorical Appeal?
The four main components of a well-integrated quote include the signal phrase, the quote, the citation, and this.
What is the analysis/explanation?
These are the three criteria to consider when evaluating a website's credibility.
What are Author (Authority - publisher/database), Purpose (Bias), and Timeliness (Currency)?
This is the process of blending and connecting ideas from multiple sources to form a new, unified argument.
What is synthesis?
A paper written in a formal academic tone should avoid using these shortened word forms, like "don't" or "can't."
What are Contractions (avoiding)?
A student in a sociology major conducting a new survey on local voting habits would be performing this type of research.
What is primary research?
This is the crucial step in an argumentative paper where the writer anticipates and responds to opposing viewpoints.
What is Acknowledging and responding to opposing viewpoints (or Counterargument/Refutation)?
This website domain suffix is often (but not always) a good indicator of non-commercial, educational, and reliable information.
What is .edu?
This psychological bias causes researchers to seek out and favor evidence that supports their pre-existing beliefs while ignoring contrary evidence.
What is Confirmation Bias?
This is the Latin abbreviation used in in-text citations when a source has more than three authors (MLA) or more than two/three authors after the first mention (APA).
What is Et al.?
Pathos, ethos, and logos are what we use when writing to convince an audience of your credibility and reliability.
What are Rhetorical Appeals?