Definitions
Freewriting, Mindmapping(Crab Cluster) and looping are all examples of this beginning stage of the writing process.
What is brainstorming?
This protects creators from having their work copied without permission. Whoever is the owner of the work is allowed to choose how and where it is reproduced.
What is Copyright?
This is an example of this type of run-on sentence:
As a child, Susan went to the library every week, she loved reading books.
What is a comma splice?
Correct:
As a child, Susan went to the library every week. She loved reading books.
ALSO Correct:
As a child, Susan went to the library every week; she loved reading books.
When information is produced quickly, it often is or contains a first person account, is produced for a general audience, and lacks this:
What is depth?
True or False:
Failing to credit an author, consulting with a classmate for revision suggestions, and not crediting their help, and purchasing a paper online are all examples of plagiarism.
What is True?
This is the term for the set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information, the understanding of how information is produced and valued, and the use of information in creating new knowledge and participating ethically in communities of learning, and the "IL" in the "ILM" acronym from early in the semester.
What is Information Literacy?
True or False:
The MLA is an organization which helps creators legally share their work while still retaining some rights.
What is False?
Creative Commons is an organization which helps creators legally share their work while still retaining some rights.
This is an example of this type of sentence fragment:
Because Miguel was the club president.
What is a dependent clause?
Correct:
Because Miguel was the club president, he was asked to speak at the awards banquet.
ALSO Correct:
They asked him to speak at the awards banquet because Miguel was the club president.
What are books/reference books (encyclopedias, etc)?
A Works Cited Page is presented in this Citation Style.
Writers can use these to refer back to something written in a previous sentence.
What are Pointing Words?
Writers should do this when synthesizing their own ideas with others in a document (like a Research Paper or Synthesized Sources assignment where you are asked to quote from and synthesize other information) to avoid being accused of plagiarism.
What is Citing Sources (correctly, of course!)?
This is an example of this type of run-on sentence:
Allison wanted to go to the park she wanted to walk her dog there.
What is a fused sentence?
Correct:
Allison wanted to go to the park. She wanted to walk her dog there.
ALSO Correct:
Allison wanted to go to the park; she wanted to walk her dog there.
Unlike Secondary Sources, which may describe, discuss, interpret, comment on, analyze, evaluate, summarize, and process a document, this type of source provides firsthand information such as an eyewitness account, a speech, or the results of a scientific experiment, just to name a few.
What is a Primary Source?
The author of a work should be credited for which of these things:
A direct quote
A paraphrase of their ideas
An idea introduced in their work
What is All of Them?
This modern research acronym and tool helps students weed through junky research and separate good sources from bad ones.
What is the CRAAP test?
While MLA Citation style is our preferred style in this class, and generally used for writing in the Humanities, Arts, and Literature, this style is used in the Social Sciences, Health and Education.
What is APA Citation Style?
"APA" stands for "American Psychological Association". Oddly enough, it IS used across one Humanities based subject: History.
This is an example of this type of grammatical error:
Jerry and Jessica is twins.
What is a subject-verb agreement error?
Correct:
Jerry and Jessica ARE twins.
True or False:
Sources found in an online academic database are more stable than a general webpage, tweet, or blog article.
What is True?
They are found to be more stable because they do not move. Academic journal information is usually there to stay.
We can credit an author of a source with a listing in the works cited page, and these, which are included in a paper's text.
What are Parenthetical Citations?
This is a group of words that also contains a subject and a verb, but it is not a complete thought. If it appears alone, it counts as a sentence fragment.
What is a dependent clause?
While APA Citation Style includes the last name of the author(s) and the publication year of a document (plus a page number for direct quotations), MLA Citation Style includes the last name of the author(s) and this.
What is a page number?
This sentence fragment is missing this:
walks to the park.
What is a subject?
Correct:
(Amy, Joseph, he, she, they, My grandma, The Dog, etc) walks to the park.
The format of information does not matter, as long as you can get something out of it.
What is False?
The format of a work DOES matter because it will direct the quality and depth of information found, the work's stability, and its overall usefulness for a researcher.
Plagiarism can be considered an act of this (besides desperation).
What is Academic Dishonesty (Cheating)?