All important words in the title are capitalized in this citation format.
What is MLA format?
100
This Boolean operator will BROADEN your database or web searches.
What is "OR"?
100
A book published in 1989 might not meet this criteria for a paper on current events.
What is "currency"?
100
The name for the reason students are allowed to use material in papers without getting legal permission.
What is "fair use"?
100
You need a "C" or better in this class to do this.
What is "pass the class"? (or "to graduate")
200
This is where you get the information for citing a book.
What is the title page?
200
When you have too many results, you need to do this to your search.
What is "narrow"?
200
Looking up the author to see what else they've written is one way to check this.
How can you evaluate "authority"?
200
Using words, pictures, ideas, etc. that are not originally yours without citing the source.
What is plagiarism?
200
These are collections of information that is organized into RECORDS and FIELDS.
Some of them are available on the internet, and others are only available by subscription to libraries.
What are databases?
300
This refers people to the specific material in your bibliography.
What is an "in-text" (or parenthetical) citation?
300
You use this Boolean operator to NARROW your search.
What is "and"?
300
You may have to skim the table of contents or the index to determine this about a book.
What is "content"?
300
Legally, this refers to who controls the use of something and who gets to make money from it.
What is "Copyright"?
300
These are way of searching for information using menus with topics and sub-topics.
What are directories?
400
This punctuation mark separates a title and subtitle.
What is a colon?
400
This type of material includes newspapers, popular magazines, trade publications, and scholarly or academic journals.
What are periodicals?
400
Seeing these at the end of an article or on a web site is a good way of deciding that a source is suitable for research.
What are citations (or what are references)?
400
The maximum fine for this is $150,000 per incident.
What is copyright infringement?
400
This is all the information your reader needs to find the exact source of an idea or quote.
What is a bibliographic citation? (Or what is a reference?)
500
"Works cited" and "References" pages use this type of indentation.
What is a hanging indent?
500
This popular website carries a disclaimer that its information is subject to change, and should never be considered a scholarly academic resource.
What is Wikipedia?
500
If the information on a webpage is similar to or reinforces other information you've gotten, it's likely to meet this criteria.
What is "accuracy"?
500
Whenever you use words, ideas, or thoughts that are not your own you should do this.
What is "cite your sources"?
500
The part of a book that lists pages where specific topics can be found, it's also the name for the part of a search engine that tracks what keywords are on each webpage.