This is what we call a quote that sits as its own sentence in your writing.
What is a dropped quote?
100
This is what we call sources that have been reviewed by scholars in the field
What is peer-reviewed?
100
Cutting this type of verb helps to create a more dynamic and concise writing style.
What is a "to be" verb?
100
What is the domain abbreviation (like .com) for a non-profit organization?
What is .org?
100
This is what MLA asks for in the upper-left hand corner of your essay. You put your last name and the page number in this.
What is a header?
200
In this treatment of a source, the writer puts the author's words in his or her own words, using about the same number of words to do so.
What is a paraphrase?
200
This is a periodical that's like a magazine, but it is scholarly. Its authors are usually professors whose work undergoes review by their peers. This kind of source will always use a specific citation style.
What is an academic journal?
200
This sentence error joins two or more independent clauses, with no punctuation between them.
What is a run-on sentence?
200
If our library does not have a book or article, you can click on the library link to this special service to order the book.
What is interlibrary loan?
200
This is how you format the title of a book, a magazine, a painting, or a ship.
What are italics?
300
In this treatment of sources, the writer condenses the author's arguments. The writer will use less words than the author to do so.
What is a summary?
300
This is what we call a book written for a popular audience. Its author will seek to make a profit on sales of the book.
What is a trade book?
300
This sentence error joins two independent clauses with nothing but a comma.
What is a comma splice?
300
The three main components of an argument are claim, ________, and evidence.
What are reasons?
300
This is what we call the special format for quotes of four lines or more.
What is long quote or block quote format?
400
This short opening sets up the quote or paraphrase. At its best, it explains the authority of the author. It can be as simple as "One noted author states. . . "
What is a signal phrase?
400
In the STAR method for evaluating sources, the "A" stands for what aspect of the source?
What is the author?
400
This is what you must have on either side of a semicolon.
What are independent clauses?
400
This is the only major database that the Mercyhurst "Search Everything" does not search. The database contains popular newspaper and trade magazine articles.
What is Lexis Nexis?
400
What are the three categories of words that we do not capitalize in a title?
What are articles, short conjunctions, and short prepositions?
500
When writers want to incorporate sources yet shorten them, they use three or four dots (. . . .). What is this series of dots called?
What is ellipses?
500
What do you use if you want to search on the internet, but only within a specific domain, such as .org or .edu?
What is Google Advanced Search?
500
This aspect of a good writing style sets up a series of phrases in the same grammatical form--such as all "ing" phrases, all nouns, or all prepositional phrases.
What is parallelism?
500
This is what we call arguments that involve faulty reasoning. Some examples of these statements are the ad hominem argument, the bandwagon appeal, and begging the question.
What are fallacies?
500
What Latin abbreviation do we use when listing three or more authors on the "Works Cited" page?