Gathering Information
What is an advanced search?
A reliable way to narrow your topic and find precise results using online tools.
What is paraphrasing?
When you rewrite a source's ideas in your own words
This is a standardized way to give credit to sources in your writing.
Citation
Speakers use these words (like "furthermore" or "consequently") to signal relationships between ideas and guide listeners through arguments.
Transition words
When assessing the reasoning in a text, this term describes the underlying basis for a conclusion or argument put forth by the author.
Premise
What is a scholarly or academic source?
A type of source that is typically written by an expert and published in a peer-reviewed journal.
A good integration of evidence does what to your argument.
Strengthens or supports it
Including a works cited or reference page shows you are doing what?
Crediting your sources or avoiding plagiarism
This term refers to the specific choice of words in writing or speech that can influence the tone and clarity of the message.
Diction
This term refers to the process of breaking down a text to understand its components, structures, and meanings.
Analysis
What is balanced or well-rounded information?
Using more than one type of source when researching.
True or False: It is acceptable to copy and paste a sentence written by someone else into your paper if you add quotation marks around it.
False
The most common style guides used in high school and college writing.
MLA & APA
Using this type of language can make writing more vivid and engaging by appealing to the senses.
Descriptive language
A U.S. Supreme Court document that outlines the majority opinion and dissenting views on important legal cases, serving as key examples for evaluating reasoning.
Supreme Court opinion
What is evaluating a source?
Making sure a source is trustworthy and relevant.
Which of the following requires proper citation?
A. When using information from crowd-sourced sources, like Wikipedia, because they are in the public domain.
B. When using information that is considered common knowledge or widely accessible (for example; most of the earth’s surface is water.
C. None of the above
D. Both A and B
A. When using information from crowd-sourced sources, like Wikipedia, because they are in the public domain.
Even when paraphrasing, you still need to do what?
Cite the source
This term describes deliberately understated language that achieves emphasis through its restraint, as in calling a devastating hurricane "not a minor inconvenience."
Understatement
This term refers to the process of identifying and assessing the logic and reasoning behind the arguments presented in seminal U.S. texts, such as Supreme Court opinions and public advocacy works.
Evaluating reasoning
A ".gov" or ".edu" website is more likely to be __________________ compared to a blog.
Authoritative or Credible
To blend source material smoothly, writers should do what before and after a quote?
Provide context or an explanation
What is the format if want to cite a website in MLA?
Last Name, First Name. "Title of Page." Title of Website, Publisher (if different), Date of Publication, URL.
This rhetorical technique involves the deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences.
Anaphora
This foundational document includes essays arguing for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and serves as a prime example of public advocacy writing.
The Federalist Papers