The Research Paper
What you do after finding credible sources but before writing a rough draft.
What is create a Works Cited page?
Or
What is create an Outline.
(Either answer is acceptable.)
This is when you use striking, whimsical, profound or even provocative words from someone famous.
What is a FAMOUS QUOTATION?
This method is a helpful tool used to incorporate the words of an author into your own writing.
What is ICE?
These are listed on your Works Cited page in alphabetical order by the first word, which is typically the last name of the author.
What is a CITATION?
This is created by including an emotional tone, emotion-evoking examples, and stories of emotional events.
What is PATHOS?
This is when you take information from one of your sources and give that information to your audience in your own words, yet give credit to the source.
What is paraphrasing?
This is when you withhold the topic as a way to increase the audience's interest in the topic
What is SUSPENSE?
This is the main point you will try to prove in the rest of your essay. The best ones take a position and are specific, debatable, and defensible.
What is a THESIS STATEMENT?
When creating an in-text citation for a source that has NO author, you should use THIS inside of the quotation marks, which isthen placed inside the parentheses.
What is the FIRST KEY WORD?
This is developed by using advanced, theoretical or abstract language, citing facts (very important), using historical analogies, and by constructing logical arguments.
What is LOGOS?
This is using an author’s exact words without giving him/her credit.
What is plagiarism?
This is where you share something that the speaker/writer has in common with the audience.
What is COMMON GROUND?
These are two ways to organize your information when writing a comparison-contrast essay.
What are POINT-BY-POINT and BLOCK?
Each of the in-text citations used in your paper must match WHAT on your works cited page?
What is a CITATION?
This is achieved by making yourself sound fair or unbiased, introducing your expertise or pedigree, and by using correct grammar and word choice.
What is ETHOS?
This is when the writer accidentally takes the ideas or exact words from a source without acknowledging the original source of information.
What is UNINTENTIONAL PLAGIARISM?
This is when you use a good joke (must be one in good taste) to break the ice and create a friendly relationship between the speaker/writer and the audience.
What is HUMOR?
This part of your essay includes an opening technique, a bridge statement, and your thesis.
What is the INTRODUCTION?
This information is found in parentheses usually at the ends of sentences in your essay. It may include an author's name or part of a title of an article.
What is an IN-TEXT CITATION?
This is considered the most effective method of persuading someone to agree with your point of view.
What is PATHOS?
This is an opposing viewpoint that you add to your research paper to help make it stronger. This is followed by evidence that will attack the opposing viewpoint.
What is a COUNTER ARGUMENT?
This is when you share a brief story to introduce your topic
What is ANECDOTE or NARRATIVE?
This is a final sentence in your conclusion that elevates the topic beyond the subject of the book. A sentence that considers some of the implications of your Thesis Statement beyond what has already been discussed in the paper.
What is a 'SO WHAT' STATEMENT?
This is where you provide detailed information about the sources you used and cited in your paper.
What is a WORKS CITED page?
The ancient Greek Philosopher credited with coining the terms pathos, logos, and ethos.
Who is ARISTOTLE?