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A Source Is A Source
Falling For Fallacies
Quoth The Raven
Cleaning It Up
In Your Own Words
100
These help indicate where source information begins and ends.
What are boundary markers?
100
A fallacy that uses a person's fame as a substitute for evidence.
What is appeal to prestige?
100
Expert declaration, effective language, and controversial statements are all examples of this.
What are reasons to quote?
100
The sentence "This green wire in the bundle of wires serve as the ground wire" contains this error.
What is subject-verb agreement error?
100
Putting information in your own words but including only the main ideas.
What is a summary?
200
(Smith 34) is an example of this citation style, which includes the author's last name and the page number.
What is MLA (Modern Language Association)?
200
A fallacy that uses loaded words to appeal to the reader's emotions instead of reason.
What is emotive language?
200
Quoting too often, using one source too much, and using very long quotations are all examples of this.
What are ways quotations can be used unwisely?
200
The sentence "The dog has fleas, the dog scratches" contains this error.
What is a comma splice?
200
Putting information in your own words and sentence structure.
What is paraphrasing?
300
Jones (2009) explained that most house cats are "rather small" (p. 24). The previous sentence is an example of this citation style.
What is APA (American Psychological Association)?
300
A fallacy that presents a position in an unfair or exaggerated way that is easy to refute.
What is straw man?
300
Adds, believes, concedes, describes, and explains are all examples of these.
What are introductory verbs?
300
The sentence "We cheered for the team all night, but they lost anyway" contains this error.
What is an error in pronoun agreement?
300
Easily observable information and commonly reported facts are two examples of this, which does not require citation.
What is common knowledge?
400
[sic] is the Latin word for "thus." When added to a quotation, it indicates this.
What is that a typographical error in the original text has been reproduced exactly in a quotation?
400
A fallacy that rejects an idea because of its origin.
What is genetic error?
400
This punctuation mark is used to show that words have been omitted in the middle of a quotation.
What are ellipsis dots?
400
The sentence "Using laser thermography, the bees could be studied more closely" contains this error.
What is a dangling modifier?
400
Using words, ideas, or other information from a source without giving credit to that source.
What is plagiarism?
500
An original source of information such as a historical document or literary work.
What is a primary source?
500
A fallacy that attacks the writer personally rather than arguing against the writer's ideas.
What is argumentum ad hominem?
500
In APA style, this type of quotation is more than 40 words long and is indented an inch from the left margin.
What is a block quotation?
500
The word "effect" is an example of this part of speech (verb, pronoun, adjective, etc.)
What is a noun?
500
Creating simplicity, clarity, or consistency in tone are all reasons to do this.
What is choose to paraphrase?