Research and Citation Basics
An organized collection of structured information or data.
Database
The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
Plagiarism
A word or phrase that connects one idea to another.
Transition
This is your position or argument on an issue and why.
Claim
The document or other work that provides the information that is being used.
Source
A restatement in your own words of something written or spoken by someone else.
Paraphrase
Reproduces exactly the same material taken directly from another author's work.
Quote
What the opposing side is arguing about the issue and why.
Counterclaim
A formatted list of all sources you cited within your paper.
Works Cited Page
A summary is a record in a reader's own words that gives the main points or essential ideas of a piece of writing.
Summary
Inserted in the body of your research paper to briefly acknowledge the source of your information.
In-text Citation
This is your response to the counterclaim and an explanation of why their reasoning is flawed.
Rebuttal
A format thar gives specifies guidelines for citation and documentation research in writing.
MLA Format
A sentence that expresses the main idea of the paragraph in which it occurs.
Topic Sentence
Give credit to the creator.
Cite
The sentence that states the topic and purpose of your paper.
Thesis