Essay Writing
When a writer starts to break down ideas in an essay, they are performing this.
Analysis
Writers need to know these two identifying factors to create a correct in-text MLA citation.
Author's name and page number
This fan behavior involves fans dressing up as their favorite fictional characters.
Cosplay or costume play
This medium relies heavily on visuals and realism to evoke emotion in its audience.
Film or television
This is the best location for finding peer-reviewed (aka scholarly) sources.
Wilson Library or college library
When a writer starts to tie together ideas and evidence in an essay, they are performing this.
Synthesis
When writing an in-text citation, if a source does not have an author, this is used to cite the source instead.
The title of the text
This fan activity is a prominent subgenre of fanfic that usually puts two main male characters from a series into a homoerotic relationship.
Slash fiction
This medium uses static visuals and minimal text to communicate philosophical ideas for its audience to ponder.
Comics
This two-worded term refers to a source that is the original text. Examples of this kind of source are comic books, movies, interviews, and speeches.
Primary Source
When a writer is making large, impactful content-based changes to their draft, they are performing this.
Revision or Revising
Most works cited page entries start with this information.
Author's last name
This fan behavior happens when dedicate fans fear losing their connection to the text or person they love, so they restrict the inclusion of new members.
Gatekeeping
This medium allows the audience a little to a lot of control over the main character, causing the audience to feel more connected or invested in the main character's outcomes.
Video games
This type of source is one that references many different types of sources with the purpose of providing deep analysis of the topic.
Secondary source
Whenever a claim is made in an essay, it must be supported by this.
Evidence or Source Material
In MLA format, the title of books, movies, TV shows, video games, websites, scholarly journals, and any other large text is indicated as such by doing this to the title.
Italicizing
This term refers to little videos that fans make from snippets of their favorite television shows or musical artists' performances to admire their idols.
edits or movie edits
This medium uses sound and poetry to evoke emotions in its audience.
Music
This kind of source will provide the most ethos (credibility) for the paper. It can also be referred to as "peer-reviewed."
Scholarly source
When a writer is performing sentence-level changes to a draft to improve clarity and flow, they are performing this.
Edits or Editing
When writing an in-text MLA citation for a YouTube video, this must be included in the parenthetical at the end of the sentence.
Time stamp
These two terms are often placed in opposition of one another. One refers to the collection of a creator's original text, and the other encompasses all of the fandom's created texts including alternate universes of the original text.
Canon and fanon
This medium uses written text only, and relies heavily on the audience's imagination to teach its audience something directly or indirectly.
Novels
This type of source is a collection of a variety of sources, but it provides little to no analysis. It is merely a collection of knowledge.
Tertiary source