Skills for Using Sources
Stating the information that helps your readers locate the sources you have used in writing your paper.
What is citing your sources?
the unacknowledged use of other people's ideas
What is plagiarism
introduction, thesis, body, and conclusion
What is the format of an academic essay or essay format
A complete idea that includes a noun and a verb
What is a sentence
your explanation of an outside source that is not plagiarized or summarized
What is a paraphrase
A list of citations in alphabetical order by author's last name or the title of the outside sources you have consulted for your paper
What is a bibliography or works cited page
A website, which you can access through the Reynolds Library, that helps you create citations
What is Zotero or other citation generators?
A collection of sentences that support and develop a topic sentence
What is a paragraph
words that are commonly used in some speech circles, but are not found in the dictionary.
What is non-standard English
the style guide that is used by the academic disciplines of foreign languages and literature to format the text and cite the sources used
What is the MLA
A brief way of telling your readers which source you have consulted for a particular piece of information in the text of your essay.
What is in text citation or parenthetical citation
Uncontroversial information, facts, and well-known historical events
What is material that does not need to be cited or common knowledge?
the elements of the rhetorical situation
genre, audience, purpose, stance, context, design and medium
Two independent clauses incorrectly joined with a comma
What is a comma splice, which is a type of a run on sentence
online search engines which organize and provide access not only to listings of journal and news articles but also to abstracts and full texts of articles.
What are databases?
when you delete a few words from a direct quotation in order to fit the quotation into your paper, you use this
What is an ellipsis?
Mistakes in citation or incomplete citation information for the sources you use in your paper
What is a common cause of plagiarism
use standard, edited English, use clear and recognizable patterns of organization, mark logical relationships between ideas, state claims explicitly and provide appropriate support, express your ideas clearly and directly, and document sources
What are the conventions of academic writing?
This is punctuated as though it is a sentence, but it isn't a sentence
What is a fragment or a sentence fragment
A genre that tells a story with a beginning, middle, and end for the purpose of making a point. This includes description, a setting, and a clear point of view.
What is narrative
the basic elements of an MLA citation double jeopardy
What is author, title, publication, date, and url?
Restating material from sources in ways that stick too closely to the original language or syntax
What is Patchwriting
a type of writing that results from a certain circumstance and meets a certain objective, which also defines the audience's expectations
What is genre
subordinate one clause to another, use a conjoining conjunction preceded by a comma, use a semi-colon between the two clauses, or make two separate sentences
What are four ways to fix a run-on sentence?
a type of collaborative work that helps you revise your essay double jeopardy
What is peer review