Miscellaneous
This term refers to adding notes, comments, or explanations to a text to highlight key ideas or ask questions.
What is annotation?
Examples of this are "This argument demonstrates..." and "In this essay, I will talk about..."
What is metadiscourse?
These sources provide direct evidence or firsthand accounts, such as interviews, original research, and historical documents.
What are primary sources?
A credible source should have this feature, indicating that it has been reviewed by experts in the field before publication.
What is peer review?
The literature review must include at least this many secondary sources, with at least one being scholarly.
What is four?
This outlining technique mimics a curious toddler, encouraging writers to keep asking “why?” after each idea to dig deeper into their reasoning.
What is the Three Year Old Approach?
This includes the main idea of the previous paragraph while introducing the new idea.
This type of source interprets, analyzes, or summarizes primary sources
What are secondary sources?
This is the process of combining ideas from multiple sources to form a new cohesive idea.
What is synthesis?
This required section of your essay reflects on your writing process, including how audience awareness and research impacted your final product.
What is the Writing Reflection?
This term refers to the urgent issue, need, or problem that inspires a writer or speaker to create a message in the first place.
What is exigency?
These are used to modify or clarify the original quotation without changing its meaning
What are brackets? []
This type of article is often published in academic journals and is written by experts in a specific field. It is typically peer reviewed
What is a scholarly article?
Often used for quick information and general knowledge, this online encyclopedia allows users to edit its content, raising concerns about its reliability in academic research.
What is Wikipedia?
This is the minimum number of sources you need to include in your Works Cited page, all corresponding to in-text citations.
What is six?
This term describes a group of people who share common goals, language, and ways of communicating
What is a discourse community?
These are used to show that you’ve omitted part of the original quotation. This is useful when you want to shorten a quote but maintain its meaning.
What are Ellipses? ...
Scholarly articles typically include this section, which summarizes the main findings and contributions of the research.
What is the abstract?
This feature of scholarly articles typically contains citations and references to other research, allowing readers to verify sources.
What is the bibliography or works cited section?
The main point discussed throughout your literature review should be summarized in this part of the introduction.
What is the thesis statement?
First drafts must be perfect, you can’t use “I” and writing must follow steps in order, are examples of this
Words like however, therefore, and meanwhile fall into this category of adverbs that help link ideas and show relationships between sentences.
What are conjunctive adverbs?
This is where individuals only seek out evidence that confirms their pre-existing beliefs.
What is confirmation bias?
This is the main database offered by the library, providing access to a wide range of scholarly articles, newspapers, and other resources for research.
What is ProQuest Central?
This is when your literature review is due
What is November 16th?