While working on a research project, carry a notebook or a computer with you at all times to use as a...
What is research journal
100
Always start your project with your...
What is library's website
100
Condensing an idea/argument into a sentence using your own words
What is a summary
100
Businesses to explain and promote themselves. URLs end in com.
What is commercial
100
Writing in sections, beginning with the one you feel most confident about.
What is first draft
200
Firsthand accounts such as works of literature, historical documents (letters, speeches), eyewitness reports, experiment/survey reports, interviews, or observations
What is a primary source
200
An example of a public search engine
What is Google
200
Copying a phrase, a sentence, or a longer passage from a source and passing it off as our own by not adding quotation marks.
What is deliberate plagiarism
200
Nonprofit organizations, corporations, schools, government bodies. URLs end in edu, gov, gov, com.
What is informational
200
Editing content and shape before editing sentences and words
What is revision
300
Report and analyze information drawn from other sources (often primary) such as evaluations, a critic's reading of a poem, historian's account of a battle, reporter's summary.
What is a secondary source
300
Include indexes, bibliographies, other reference works
What is online databases
300
Forgetting to add a source citation for a paraphrase.
What is accidental plagiarism
300
Knowledge building interest, include research reports. URLs usually end in edu, gov, org.
What is scholarly
300
Look for awkward passages, wordiness, unnecessary repetition, wrong or misspelled words, and errors in grammar, punctuation, or mechanics.
What is editing
400
Before you proceed with your subject, transform it into a _______ that can guide your searches for sources.
What is question
400
Contain entire contents of articles, book chapter, and whole books.
What is full text resources
400
Consists of standard information on a subject as well as folk literature and commonsense observations.
What is common knowledge
400
Maintained by individuals, diaries of a family's travels, opinions on politics. URLs end in com or edu.
What is personal
400
The final draft of your paper should conform to the MLA document _____
What is format
500
The five steps in the writing process
What is revise, edit, develop, shape, and polish
500
Uses e-mail to connect individuals who are interested in a common subject, often with a scholarly or technical focus
What is a discussion list
500
Used in English, foreign languages, some other humanities.
What is MLA
500
Views of individuals/organizations promoting certain policies/actions. URLs end in org, sometimes edu and com.
What is advocacy
500
Each section of your essay should center around your...