Write-a-mania
Putting research into your own words and citing the source.
What is paraphrasing?
The central idea or opinion you will prove throughout your paper.
What is a thesis statement?
A condition in which you stare at a blank screen with no ideas.
What is writer's block?
The type of spacing required in MLA format.
What is double?
Taking multiple forms of research to create new knowledge.
What is a synthesis paper?
This goes directly under your own name on the upper lefthand corner of the first page.
What is the professor/instructor's name?
Indicates an omission of information within a quote. Also indicates the sentence is trailing off.
What is an ellipsis?
A classic structure that lays out the main ideas and their support, showing the relative importance of all the essay's elements. Often uses Roman numerals.
What is an outline?
The type of indentation needed in an MLA Works Cited.
What is hanging?
Type of essay that intends to explain or inform.
What is exposition or expository writing? What is an informational essay?
Indicates a list of items.
What is a colon?
The first version of your paper.
What is a draft?
If available, these two elements must be included in an effective MLA in-text citation.
What is author and page number?
A way to not only cite sources, but to explain and assess the value of each source.
What is an annotated bibliography?
Two types of synthesis essays.
What are argumentative and informative?
When a sentence continues without punctuation despite containing multiple independent clauses.
What is a run-on sentence?
Ways to generate writing ideas such as brainstorming or going on a walk n’ talk.
What is pre-writing?
The MLA has issued this many versions of it's popular guidelines for writing and preparing academic and scholarly papers.
What is nine?
Before being used in research papers, this visualization tool was invented to articulate what a product team knows about a user.
What is an empathy map?
Original, first-hand source used in research.
What is a primary source?