Coming to Terms
This term refers to the author's name in journalistic pieces such as magazines, newspapers, and journals.
You use a short passage from an article you found. In your essay you put the quote in your own words, cite it, but do not put it in quotations.
What is paraphrasing?
Numbers below this amount should always be spelled out. Students frequently use Arabic numerals incorrectly.
What is ten?
This format typically features a three prong thesis, easily identifiable topic sentences, and repeated paragraph structure?
What is the Five Paragraph Essay?
This online resource is one of the most reliable means to check formatting standards across many formats such as APA, MLA, AP, Chicago etc.
Purdue Owl states that "This term refers to any set of circumstances that involves at least one person using some sort of communication to modify the perspective of at least one other person."
What is the Rhetorical Situation?
What is Mosaic Plagiarism?
The only time this should be used is when directly engaging with the audience. Students frequently use this as a means to express events which have occurred to them personally.
What is second person narrative?
This is a common structure found in most journalism featuring events told in order of most important to least important.
What is the inverted pyramid?
This tool was coined by Dan Harmon as an easy way to craft a complete narrative
What is the Story Circle?
An excerpted line or phrase, in a larger or display typeface intended to draw attention to the text of the article or story from which it is quoted.
What is a pull quote?
You're writing a paper on Abraham Lincoln and include information about his date of birth, years in office, and manner of death without citing it.
What is using common knowledge?
This format is frequently taught in high school and leads to formulaic writing which restricts the ability of students to adequately express themselves when writing.
What is the Five Paragraph Essay?
This format, represented by a circle, relies on witty story telling which engages readers with a chronological narrative that ends in a witty reference tying the everything back to the beginning.
What is the Wall Street Journal Feature Formula?
Words have dictionary definitions called denotations but also carry these, which can be positive or negative, but rarely neutral.
What are connotations?
These are used to indicate that a quote is about to be used.
What are signal verbs?
You're not sure how to write your essay so you generate a paragraph using ChatGPT and change words and phrases here and there to fit your topic.
What is plagiarism by misrepresentation or unauthorized assistance
Not every paper or assignment needs one of these. Students frequently add poorly thought out examples of these even when they are not necessary.
What is a title?
Sometimes considered an expanded version of the inverted pyramid, this format features a witty stinger or punchline at the end.
What is the martini glass or hour glass formula?
This type of cold open begins in the middle of the action to gain the audience's attention and then cuts back to the beginning.
What is in medias res?
In journalism, this phrase defines a paragraph that explains the context of the story.
What is a nut graph.
Your teacher assigns a paper on a topic you wrote about a couple years ago and you use passages from that paper in your submission.
What is self plagiarism?
Daily Double!!
There are many forms of plagiarism and sometimes students do not realize they are plagiarizing. This form plagiarism occurs when a student uses small pieces of another person's text, including novel quotes and jargon, interspersed through their own text.
What is patchwork or mosaic plagiarism?
This is another name for the Wall Street Journal formula. Some refuse to use this graphic depiction as seems to closely resembles the five paragraph essay.
What is the Kebab format?
This type of citation is frequently used in journalism in lieu of more standard academic citations such as MLA, APA etc.
What is attributive language?
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What is AP formatting?