Grammar
First-person.
This plagiarist dropped out of the presidential race and later died, both arguably as a result of their plagiarism.
Herman Cain
The online book we use in this class, from which some of the midterm's material will derive.
The RoughWriter's Guide.
The minimum number of sources any given bibliography must have.
One.
The minimum number of paragraphs necessary for a typical academic essay.
Five.
The voice used in this very sentence.
Passive voice.
This online tool, while popularly used for brainstorming and "writing," is known as a plagiarism machine online due to its tendency to steal others' work without credit--before its users will then do the same to it.
AI.
While common in speech and informal writing, this grammatical device, which bridges multiple words into one, is unacceptable in academic writing.
Contractions.
A special type of line format you should use for the citation--but not the annotation.
Hanging indent.
This paragraph should not simply restate the intro or thesis.
Conclusion.
I should use this voice in my writing.
This type of writing, where a writer will craft their own story using someone else's characters and settings, often does not constitute plagiarism.
Fanfiction.
The point-of-view most common in academic writing, in part due to its overall objectivity.
Third-person.
The three things a proper annotation needs to have.
What, why, and how.
My term for analyzing an essay's structure to craft an outline.
Reverse-engineering.
This punctuation mark, while containing two other punctuation marks both common in bibliographies, will not itself appear in the typical bibliography.
Semicolon.
Despite not knowing she was plagiarizing at the time, she created one of the highest profile plagiarism scandals of the 2010s.
Melania Trump
This academic style is the most common in liberal arts and humanities, a category this class falls under.
MLA
The most important part of the bibliography, for organizing your citations.
Author.
This paragraph is also a common phenomenon in real life.
Introduction.
The name for the specific way you should write and capitalize your titles.
Titlecase.
This book plagiarized Harold Courlander's The African.
Alex Haley's Roots.
The most common structure for organizing academic writing.
Hourglass structure.
The name of a larger work the shorter work you're citing is in.
Container.
While common in research papers and the longer essays present in higher-level academic writing, you shouldn't expect to use these in rudimentary academic essays.
Sections and subheads.