Academic Honesty
This is when write an idea that is not originally yours without giving credit to the original author.
What is plagiarism?
This academic offense of stealing intellectual property is often the cause for the expulsion of college students, and in extreme cases may cause jail time or fines.
Students should do this as they are researching and reading articles and books about their topic.
What is take notes and put them in their own words?
When preparing for an academic essay, students should create this plan for their writing first.
What is an outline?
This is the first thing listed in the left-hand corner of your paper (the first line of the heading).
What is your name?
This is the punctuation mark that surrounds a direct quotation.
What is a quotation mark?
This is the process (the verb) where the author puts someone else’s idea into his/her own words.
What is paraphrase?
As a student is taking notes while researching, he/she should be sure to copy down this information as well.
What is the Works Cited information?
This is the most important sentence of an academic essay and is usually found as the last sentence of the first paragraph.
What is the thesis statement?
This is centered on the first page, after the list of your name, instructor, class, and date.
What is the title of your paper?
When referencing a book, the title should be punctuated in this way.
What is italicized?
This is one example where an author of a research paper may not need a citation.
What is when stating “common knowledge”?
This is a resource that is never acceptable in formal, academic writing.
What is Wikipedia or Yahoo! Answers?
(or something similar)
These are the words or phrases that move a paper from one paragraph to the next seamlessly. They help a paper “flow.”
What are transitions?
This is found on the top right-hand corner of each page (in the header).
What is last name and page number?
When referencing an academic article, the title should be punctuated in this way.
What is in quotations marks?
This is one of the 2 common ways that students accidentally plagiarize.
What is fail to paraphrase or fail to use a citation?
This database is a good place to start looking for research articles.
What is EBSCO research database? (or something similar)
This is the sentence that expresses the main idea in each paragraph.
What is the topic sentence?
These are found in parenthesis after each idea in the paper that is not the writer’s original thought.
What are in-text citations?
OR
What is author name and page number of the original source?
Assuming you have all the needed information, what is the first piece of information listed in a Works Cited entry?
What is the author’s name?
Any time a student is looking up information to learn something new, he or she is doing this.
What researching?
When preparing for an academic essay, students should create this plan for their writing first.
What is an outline?
All formal, academic papers at INCA should be submitted in MLA format. MLA stands for this.
What is the Modern Language Association?
This is how the entries in the Works Cited are organized.
What is alphabetically?
This is the very last piece of information listed in a Works Cited entry for a website.
What is the date of access?