Reliable Sources
There are five criteria to evaluating a website, how many do you need to find in order to decide the site is reliable enough to use for school?
What is three?
This is the number of words that is a phrase, and therefore plagiarism if not in quotation marks.
What is three?
What size font should every paper be?
What is 12?
This is an example of a correct lead in phrase (with proper punctuation)
What are
The author writes, The author thinks, The author illustrates, The author refutes, etc.
A claim, a thesis, and a research question should be written in third person, meaning this is one word to avoid
What are I, Me, You, We, Us?
If you're in our school, this is where you should look first for reliable information
Where is the Library Media Center
It is what kind of plagiarism when you copy and paste a piece of textual evidence, then you change a word or two.
Find and replace
What should the spacing be for every document?
What is double?
This is what you should use as a parenthetical citation for an online source (website) with no author listed on the article.
What is the title?
This is where the period goes when writing a piece of textual evidence with a parenthetical citation
What is after the parenthesis?
A website that has authority has this.
What is an author?
To restate something in your own words, but in detail appropriate for high school
What is paraphrase?
These are the four parts of a heading (in the correct order).
What are Name, Teacher's Name, Course name, Date?
This is the order Works Cited entries should be in, when using multiple sources.
What is alphabetical order?
This is the name of the piece of punctuation used to take out words, or shorten a piece of textual evidence
What is an ellipsis ... ?
The least reliable suffix in a web address is this.
What is .Net?
Paying someone to do work for someone else is a type of what plagiarism
What is purchasing?
This kind of indent is used for a Works Cited page
What is a hanging indent?
How would you cite quantitative data that had no illustrator's name or title of the graph?
What is the publishing company/website name?
These kinds of titles should go in quotation marks
What is a short article, short story, a song (anything short)?
When doing a web search for school, one should always start at this website
What is Google Advanced Search?
Putting the wrong author's name in the lead in phrase used for textual evidence, is an example of what type of plagiarism.
What is improper attribution
A proper header has what pieces of information
What are a last name and page number?
This is when someone should include a page number in their parenthetical citation
What is Always, if one is listed or available?
If you want to change a word, or add information, to textual evidence, you use this piece of punctuation
What are [ ] square brackets?