Information Please
First Steps
Ready to Write?
It's About Rules
Anything Goes
100
Once such as a person or document that supplies information.
What is a source?
100
The subject of a speech, essay, thesis or discourse.
What is a topic?
100
A first or preliminary form of any writing subject to revision, copying, etc.
What is a draft?
100
The principal professional association in the US for scholars of language and literature.
What is the Modern Language Association?
100
A comprehensive collection of related data organized for convenient access, generally in a computer.
What is a database?
200
A place set apart to contain books.
What is a library?
200
Diligent and systematic inquiry or investigation into a subject in order to discover or revise facts or theories.
What is research?
200
To revise or correct, as a manuscript.
What is edit?
200
A widely accepted style of documentation, particularly in the social sciences.
What is the American Psychological Association Style?
200
To prepare and issue for public distribution or sale.
What is publish?
300
A magazine or other journal that is issued at regularly recurring intervals.
What is a periodical?
300
A card for note taking.
What is a note card?
300
Pairs students as editors for each others' papers.
What is peer editing?
300
An authentic assessment tool used to measure students' work.
What is a rubric?
300
Contains only those works you have actually cited in your paper.
What is a works cited?
400
Any document that describes an event, person, place or thing, usually not created contemporaneously.
What is a secondary source?
400
Note card on which is compiled bibliographic information needed for understanding citiations.
What is source card?
400
To alter something already written or printed, in order to make corrections, improve or update
What is revise?
400
The unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work.
What is plagiarism?
400
A list of divisions and the pages on which they start.
What is a table of contents?
500
An original fundamental and authoritative document pertaining to an event or subject of inquiry; a firsthand or eyewitness account.
What is primary source?
500
A general sketch account or report indicating only the main features, as of a book, subject or project.
What is an outline?
500
A restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
What is paraphrase?
500
The exclusive right to make copies, license and otherwise exploit a literary, musical or artistic work.
What is copyright?
500
A detailed alphabetical listing of names, places and topics along with page numbers listed in the back of a book.
What is an index?
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