Vocab
A tendency to show favor for or prejudice against a topic.
What is bias?
Doing a broad search about your prompt or topic to learn more about it before you begin.
What is a pre-search?
The 3 most reputable domain suffixes.
What are .gov, .edu, and .org?
The type pf paper where you debate a topic, while maintaining a clear opinion.
What is an argumentative essay?
The video version of an online journal.
What is a vlog?
An online journal where someone shares their personal life or activities.
What is a blog?
The two groups that sources can be divided into.
What are primary and secondary sources?
The company that owns the rights to produce, print, and distribute a book.
What is a publisher?
What is an informational essay?
Two very similar papers involving citations, with minor differences.
What is a works cited page and a bibliography?
To quote something.
What is citing or a citation?
The name of the first time you write a paper, before you edit or revise it.
What is a rough draft?
The first thing to appear in every citation (aside from social media).
What is the author's last name?
A paper that is similar to an informational essay but is usually revealing something new or releasing information yet unproven.
What is an expository essay?
A source that was written firsthand during the actual time/event.
What is a primary source?
The use of humor or sarcasm to ridicule an event or person. (The Onion)
What is satire?
The address for something on the web.
What is a URL?
The type of citation that requires you to cite where it is housed and the date you accessed it.
What is a work of art?
An essay where you are telling a story or writing about an experience, either fact or fiction.
What is a narrative essay?
To wrongfully or deliberately claims someone else's work as your own.
What is plagiarism?
The writer or speaker's attitude towards a subject.
What is tone?
The reason you take notes when researching a topic for a paper.
What is organizing your paper?
Putnam in the citation...
Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita. Putnam, 1995.
What is the publisher?
The sentence that fully encompasses a writer's stance on their topic, or that outlines what the essay will be about.
What is a thesis statement?
The three different kinds of citation styles.
What are MLA, APA, and Chicago style?