Fallacies
Quotations
Paraphrase & Summary
Citation
Grab Bag
100
"But all the cool kids are doing it!" is an example of this type of fallacy.
What is bandwagon?
100
This punctuation mark goes on each side of a source's exact words.
What are quotation marks?
100
This is the main difference between a summary and a paraphrase.
What is length?
100
The two A's in APA stand for these words.
What are "American" and "Association"?
100
In research, AND, OR, and NOT are examples of this, a method for narrowing search results.
What are Boolean operators?
200
"I'm a doctor, and I recommend this product to my patients!" is an example of this type of fallacy.
What is appeal to authority?
200
Expert declaration, effective language, and historical flavor are all examples of this.
What are reasons to quote?
200
Simplifying and condensing the source are two reasons you should choose to do this.
What is summarize?
200
(Thompson 143) is an example of what style of parenthetical citation?
What is MLA?
200
These are two common methods for organizing comparison.
What are block and alternating?
300
"You're either with us or against us!" is an example of this type of fallacy.
What is black and white?
300
Writing "George Washington says" instead of "George Washington said" is an example of this.
What is historical present tense?
300
When writing a paraphrase or summary, you need to change both the words that are used and the syntax -- which means this.
What is word order?
300
These are added before and after quoted, paraphrased, or summarized material to show where the source begins and ends.
What are boundary markers?
300
A map of the shipwreck sites in the Great Lakes is an example of this type of source.
What is primary?
400
"He's not a great athlete; he's a liar and a cheat!" is an example of this type of fallacy.
What is ad hominem?
400
In MLA format, this kind of material is set off by boundary markers and is indented one inch from the left margin.
What is a block quotation?
400
When writing a summary or paraphrase, you can use the same helper words (and, is, etc.) as the source. You can also reuse this kind of word.
What are technical terms?
400
Also called Turabian, this citation style is abbreviated CMS.
What is Chicago Manual of Style?
400
Looking for your perfect sleep number? "Mattress" and "bed" would both be this kind of search term.
What is a firm search term?
500
If you quote "money is the root of all evil" when St. Paul actually said "the love of money is the root of all evil," you are committing this fallacy.
What is vicious abstraction?
500
This type of information does not have to be cited -- unless it is a direct quotation.
What is common knowledge?
500
These three types of source use require in-text citation.
What are quotations, paraphrases, and summaries.
500
In APA and MLA styles, the list of sources is given in this order.
What is alphabetical order?
500
In the quote "And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be it would. You see?" from Disney's Alice in Wonderland, "contrariwise" is an example of this type of transition.
What is a strong transition?