Original source materials such as diary entries, maps, and original research.
What are primary sources?
100
An ineffective way to begin a paper is with a quotation from this type of book.
What is a dictionary?
100
Reduces a source's words into fewer of your own words.
What is a summary?
100
The acronyms APA and MLA stand for these phrases, respectively.
What are American Psychological Association and Modern Language Association?
100
A pronoun that should be avoided unless a specific person (usually the reader) is being referred to in the paper.
What is "you"?
200
Criteria for evaluating sources; combined, they create the acronym EAR.
What are expertise, accuracy, and reliability?
200
The part of a sentence that includes introductory information before a source.
What is a lead-in (or signal phrase)?
200
Converts a source's words into about the same number of your own words.
What is a paraphrase?
200
Using words, ideas, or other information from a source without giving appropriate credit to the source.
What is plagiarism?
200
If your quotation is two lines long, this should also be at least two lines long.
What is your explanation of the quotation?
300
Term that refers to websites that are not indexed by search engines.
What is the invisible web (or invisible Internet)?
300
This tells the reader that a misspelled word in a quotation was spelled wrong in the original text.
What is [sic]?
300
You should avoid adding your own to a summary.
What are ideas or opinions?
300
Text within a paper that begins on its own line and is set off from the rest of the paragraph through indenting; this type of passage includes citation but not quotation marks.
What is a block quotation?
300
This occurs when a quotation takes on a different meaning from that intended by the author.
What is vicious abstraction?
400
A method for searching databases that combines search terms with the operators AND, OR, and NOT.
What is a Boolean search?
400
Expect declaration, direct support, effective language, historical flavor, specific example, controversial statement, and material presented for analysis are examples of this.
What are reasons to choose a direct quotation?
400
Although a paraphrase should be in your own words, it is ok to repeat these without quotation marks.
What are technical words?
400
A writer would use this phrase to show that some changes have been made to a table, graph, or illustration.
What is "adapted from"?
400
Answering questions like "who is this person?" "why is this person being quoted?" and "why should I believe this person?" can help a writer establish this.
What is the credibility of a source?
500
Saving all drafts, printing out sources, getting help from a writing center or instructor, and not lending others your papers or passwords are all ways to help do this.
What is avoid a charge of plagiarism?
500
Quoting too often, quoting the same source too frequently, and including quotations that are too lengthy are all examples of this.
What are unwise uses of quotations?
500
To simplify material, clarify meaning, normalize style, and maintain length, a writer might choose to do this.
What is paraphrase?
500
A legal violation related to the misuse of intellectual property, usually involving financial gain.
What is copyright infringement?
500
Errors of reasoning or logic that divert an argument from its proper focus.