What is an advantage of paraphrasing?

It helps your writing to flow more smoothly., It allows you to better demonstrate your understanding of a text.

When is it most appropriate to use quotes?

When the author said it perfectly., When you are analyzing the exact words that the original author used.

What is a citation/formatting style?

A list of rules for how to compose bibliographies and in-text citations, A list of rules for how to organize an essay or research paper.

Why is it important to document your sources?

So that other people can more easily find the sources you used., So that you cannot be accused of plagiarism, So that your work appears more credible.

What is a style guide?

A guide that shows you how to use a specific citation/formatting style.

When should you use in-text citations?

Any time you use any information that you found by using a source., When you quote and when you paraphrase.

In MLA formatting style, what info must you include in in-text citations?

Author Last Name, and Page Number

What is a bibliography?

A list of sources you used that appears at the end of a research project

What is a synonym for Bibliography?

Reference List, Works Cited Page

What does it mean to document your sources?

To keep a record of all of the sources that you used in piece of writing.

What is paraphrasing?

Restating something in your own words.

What is an in-text citation?

A reference to a source that appears in the text of an essay or paper.

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What is an advantage of paraphrasing?
It helps your writing to flow more smoothly.
It allows you to better demonstrate your understanding of a text.
It allows you to improve on what the original author wrote.
It allows you to avoid having to use in-text citations.
2
When is it most appropriate to use quotes?
When the author said it perfectly.
Whenever you use information from a source.
When you are trying to prove that you understand what a source is saying.
When you are analyzing the exact words that the original author used.
3
What is a citation/formatting style?
A list of rules for how to compose bibliographies and in-text citations
A specific style of writing.
A list of rules for how to organize an essay or research paper.
A list of sources that appears at the end of a research paper.
4
Why is it important to document your sources?
Because academic institutions force us to.
So that other people can more easily find the sources you used.
So that you cannot be accused of plagiarism
So that your work appears more credible.
5
What is a style guide?
A guide that shows you how to use a specific citation/formatting style.
A guide that teaches you how to use grammar and punctuation correctly.
A guide that shows you how to dress stylishly.
A guide that teaches you how to write specific types of essays.
6
When should you use in-text citations?
Any time you use any information that you found by using a source.
Only when you paraphrase.
When you quote and when you paraphrase.
Only when you quote.
7
In MLA formatting style, what info must you include in in-text citations?
Author Last Name, Date, and Page Number
Date and Page Number
Author Last Name, and Date
Author Last Name, and Page Number
8
What is a bibliography?
A list of books that you intend to read.
A list of sources that you have collected in preparation for an essay
A list of sources you used that appears at the end of a research project
A list of books that might be useful to your research.
9
What is a synonym for Bibliography?
Reference List
Reliquary
Works Cited Page
Footnotes
10
What does it mean to document your sources?
To keep track of the titles of your sources so that you can find them again
To take notes on your sources as you read them.
To keep a record of all of the sources that you used in piece of writing.
To collect a variety of sources that might be useful for a research project
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What is paraphrasing?
Explaining what you think an author meant by what they wrote.
Using information from multiple sources together in the same paragraph.
Copying down the exact words used by an author.
Restating something in your own words.
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What is an in-text citation?
A reference to a source that appears in the text of an essay or paper.
An entry in a bibliography
A quote that you are using as evidence in a text you are writing.
A note that you have written in the margin of a source document

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