True or false: Google is a legitimate source to cite in a research paper.
What is false?
100
Primary or Secondary: A supreme court decision
What is primary?
100
What system is used to organize nonfiction books in the vast majority of academic libraries?
What is Dewey decimal?
200
Claiming someone else's work as your own
What is plagiarism?
200
Where you find the etymology of a word in a dictionary entry
What is at the end?
200
This style of writing is used to explain how something works or explain a concept in detail
What is expository?
200
Primary or Secondary: A census
What is primary?
200
When writing research papers, you will use a certain style of citation and formatting such as one of these
What is MLA (Modern Language Association), APA (American Psychological Assocation), Turabian, Chicago
300
To combine smaller items into a larger one
What is synthesize (or synthesis)?
300
They are the two words at the very top of a dictionary page which tells the reader what words are listed on that page
What are guide words?
300
This style of writing attempts to convince the reader to join a certain position on a topic that is usually controversial.
What is persuasive?
300
Primary or Secondary: Peter Ackroyd's biography of Charles Dickens
What is secondary?
300
These are books about a person's life written by that person
What are autobiographies?
400
Knowing the difference between right and wrong
What is ethical?
400
Other than the definitions and etymology, a dictionary entry also gives you this
What is pronunciation?
400
True or false: Wikipedia is an acceptable source so long as the article is properly cited with research you could double-check.
What is true.
400
Primary or Secondary: Dictionaries and encyclopedias
What is secondary?
400
The definition of genre
What is the term we use for categories/styles/types of reading and writing?
500
It is used to answer questions and/or complete research
What is a source?
500
Two of the four main ways a word is added to our language (and so entered into the dictionary).
What are 1. borrowed from another language, 2. a newly invented item or technology that is common, 3. changing the meaning of existing words, or 4. by creating from scratch to fill a need
500
A persuasive essay should end with this
What is "a call to action"?
500
Primary or Secondary: President Obama's "selfie" at Nelson Mandela's funeral
What is primary?
500
When an author references another work in his own with the expectation that the reader will know the work as it is common to the culture and era.