| A | B |
|---|
| Summarizing | to condense significant facts |
| Paraphrasing | to say in your own words what someone else has said |
| Quoting | copying the author’s words exactly as they are written and giving the author credit |
| MLA | Modern Language Association |
| plagiarism | taking ideas, wordings, terms, or another's line of thinking and present it as your own without acknowledging the source |
| source | book, Encyclopedia, Biography Reference |
| works cited | a list telling exactly where you found the material (words, ideas, facts) you borrowed |
| cite | use or refer to |
| parenthetical or internal documentation | documenting the source within the actual paragraph of the research paper |
| thesis statement | the controlling idea of the entire essay |
| topic sentence | states the main idea of the paragraph |
