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MLA

Modern Language Association

difference between paraphrase and summary

Paraphrase includes all details. Summary leaves some information out.

plagiarism

Stealing another person's words or ideas and passing them off as your own. (from the Latin word for kidnapping

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

Scope

a big umbrella that covers the paper's main ideas and supporting details. Information that strays outside of the scope destroys the paper's unity

working bibliography

a changeable list of sources

working outline

a changeable outline

Make sure a thesis statement is not . . .

a question

thesis

a single declarative sentence that captures the essence or central idea of your paper

Boolean Search

a title search based on key words

Primary Source

an original text, document, interview, speech, or letter. It is not someone's comments on or analysis of a text; it is the text itself

coherence

arranging your paper in an order the audience will understand

The thesis statement is located . . .

at the end of the intro paragraph

Upper left corner of a bib card

call number

3 common ways to organize a paper

chronologically, spatially, by importance

Secondary Source

is not an original text or document; rather, it is someone's comments on or analysis of a primary source.

unity

make sure all of the information fits the scope of your paper

Library

media center

lower right corner of a note card

page number

three kinds of notes

quotation, paraphrase, summary

upper left corner of note card

slug line

upper right corner of a bib card

source number

upper right corner of a note card

source number and sequential number ex. 4-2

call number

the series of numbers and letters printed on the book's spine come from either the Dewey decimal system or the Library of Congress system

lower left corner of a note card

type of note

lower left corner of a bib card

type of source

a title consists of

your topic, your limited focus, a colon to separate them

legitimate domains

.gov, .edu,. org., and .com if it it a legitimate news source

Two things you will do with your note cards when you have them made

1. sort them by slug line 2. decide which you will use and which you won't

skim reading

A rapid eye movement reading technique to identify the gist of a piece of writing.

What can you do to evaluate a source?

Check the author. Check the date.

Requirements to avoid plagiarism

Intext citation (author pg. #) works cited page


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