MLA Format
This is what MLA stands for.
Modern Language Association
A conclusion or judgment made from insufficient evidence.
Generalization
This state hosts an annual lobster festival attended by David Foster Wallace in 2003.
Maine.
Along with Authority, this is the other "A" word in CRAAP.
Accuracy.
This is defined as the art of persuasion.
This information belongs in the header.
Picking and choosing only some of the available evidence in order to present only points most favorable to your point of view.
Cherry Picking
Also a basketball maneuver, this term refers to the point in a personal essay where greater themes emerge after the reader becomes hooked by the general concept.
A pivot.
This website address almost always assures that you are looking at a reliable source.
.edu
This language attempts to compare and contrast the opinions of various authors in similar discourse communities.
Synthesis.
This is a term for how the first line of a source should be formatted in your Works Cited page.
Hanging Indent
Changing topics to avoid the point being discussed.
Red Herring
Also a form of wintertime recreation ammo, this particular elf caught the romantic attention of David Sedaris while he worked as an elf in a department store Christmas exhibit.
Snowball.
This brief overview of an academic article is placed at the beginning of longer works.
An Abstract
This is a sentence that states the topic and purpose of your paper.
Thesis Statement
Along with MLA, these other two formats make up the three most popular college writing formats.
APA and Chicago.
This is an argument that attempts to create a situation of absolutes with no options in between.
Either/Or
This literary device is used to guide the reader to greater themes in your essay by use of repetition.
A Motif.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This is the name of the librarian that helped us out the most during this semester.
Ben Richards
Along with audience, subject and author, this final term makes up the four sides of the Rhetorical Rhombus.
A Block Quote.
This is a fallacy that assumes that one thing is going to have a series of consequences or effects–often leading to a worst-case scenario.
Slippery Slope
Memoir.
No, not a trendy clothing brand, this Ancient Greek philosopher coined the terms pathos, ethos and logos.
Aristotle
This is the act of breaking down the whole into pieces for the purpose of examination.
Analysis.