Finding Your Way
The global address used to locate resources on the internet.
The main point or central idea a writer is trying to prove.
What is a thesis/claim?
Any book, website, person, or document that provides information.
What is a source?
The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
What is plagiarism?
Showing a prejudice for or against something in a way that is considered unfair.
What is biased?
The suffix of a website (like .edu, .gov, or .org) that identifies the type of entity owning the site.
What is the Web Domain?
A reason or set of reasons given with the aim of persuading others that an action or idea is right or wrong.
What is an argument?
The quality of being trusted and believed in.
What is credibility?
The legal right that grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights to its use and distribution.
What is copyright?
The reason an author decides to write about a specific topic (to inform, persuade, or entertain).
What is author's purpose?
A searchable collection of information, often containing peer-reviewed journals and articles.
What is a database?
The specific group of people a writer or speaker intends to reach.
What is a target audience?
Facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.
What is evidence?
Using the exact words from a source, enclosed in quotation marks.
The position or perspective from which a story or essay is told.
What is point of view?
To condense a long text into your own words, focusing only on the main points.
What does it mean to summarize?
An argument or set of reasons put forward to oppose an idea or theory developed in another argument.
What is a counter argument?
Numerical data used as evidence to support a claim.
A note inside your paper (usually in parentheses) that tells the reader where a piece of information came from.
What is an internal citation?
To judge or determine the significance, worth, or quality of a source.
What does it mean to evaluate?
To rewrite a specific passage in your own words while keeping the original meaning.
What does it mean to paraphrase?
The act of convincing someone to believe or do something through reasoning or temptation.
What is persuasion?
The extent to which a source consistently provides accurate and honest information.
What is reliability?
The style guide most commonly used in the liberal arts to cite sources.
What is MLA? (Modern Language Association)
The list at the end of a research paper that provides full bibliographic info for every source used.
What is the Works Cited Page?