CITATION
Acknowledgment of and credit given to the author’s research and ideas. This will look different depending on the source.
What is a citation?
Putting the main ideas into your own words, including only the main points of a source. Shortening the source material without direct quotes.
What is summarizing?
Looking at the information cited by a source to determine whether it is credible and supports your point.
What is evaluating a source?
Modern Language Association
What is MLA?
Text that is identical to the original, only using a narrow segment of the source. The words must match those of the document verbatim and attributed to the original author.
What is a direct quote?
Identifies the main idea of the paragraph. It is often the paragraph’s very first sentence.
What is a topic sentence?
These are 3 key factors in evaluating a printed source.
What is the author, publisher, and date of publication?
A list of sources one has used for researching a topic. Sometimes called "References" or "Works Cited" depending on the style format you are using. Usually includes the author, source title, publisher, etc.
What is a bibliography?
An act of theft and violation of professional ethics; the courts have recognized it as a violation of copyright. You can commit this by failing to properly credit the words or ideas of someone else.
What is plagiarism?
This is usually a single sentence near the beginning of your paper that presents your argument to the reader. It tells the reader how you will interpret the significance of the subject matter and what to expect to find in the rest of the paper.
What is the thesis statement?
The bias you may find within the text of a potential source.
What is objectivity?
A summary and/or evaluation.
What is an annotation?
Examples of this include proverbs, axioms, well-known quotes and sayings, and things accepted as common knowledge.
What is work that does not need to be cited?
These are the two main things to keep in mind when writing a summary.
What is the audience and assignment?
A useful acronym to help evaluate a source’s relevancy, legitimacy, bias, and currency.
What is CRAAP (Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose)?
This domain is likely to be the most qualified and least biased source. It provides statistics, public information, and professional research. Great for research on drugs or legislation.
What is .gov?
Examples of this includes direct quotes, paraphrasing, use of an author’s argument or line of thinking, historical/statistical/scientific facts, graphs, drawings, any aggregation (compilation?) of data, referenced articles and studies, and words or terminology specific to an author’s research, theories, and ideas.
What is work that needs to be cited?
A summary should be written in this tense.
What is present tense?
Two main types of sources one being eyewitness accounts or as close to the original as possible, the other being interpretations and analyses.
What are primary and secondary sources?
The number of points the Group Project 2: Summary vs. Evaluation is worth.
What is 50 Points?