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| American Psychological Association (APA) | the other popular documentation style for research papers |
| AutoCorrect | automatically corrects these kinds of errors as you type them in the document |
| AutoCorrect Options button | Word displays a menu that allows you to undo a correction or change how Word handles future automatic corrections of this type |
| Automatic page breaks | when it determines the text has filled one page according to paper size, margin settings, line spacing, and other settings |
| background repagination | performed between keystrokes, that is, in between the pauses in your typin |
| bibliographical list | a list with each element of the source placed in its correct position with proper formatting and punctuation, according to the specified style |
| Click and Type | double-click a blank area of the document window |
| Clipboard | a temporary Windows storage area |
| Cutting | involved removing the selected item from the document and then placing it on the Clipboard |
| double-space | the amount of vertical space between each line of text and above and below paragraphs should be equal to one blank line |
| drag-and-drop editing | when you drag the selected item to the new location and then insert, or drop, it there |
| endnote | an explanatory note at the end of the document |
| First Line Indent marker | the top triangle at the 0” mark on the ruler, used to indent only the first line of the paragraph |
| first-line indent | used to indent just the first line of a paragraph |
| footer | text and graphics that print at the bottom of every page |
| footnote | an explanatory note at the bottom of the page |
| hanging indent | the first line hangs to the left of the rest of the paragraph |
| Hanging Indent marker | the bottom triangle on the 0” mark on the ruler |
| hard page break | another name for manual page break; one that you force into the document at a specific location |
| header | text and graphics that print at the top of each page in a document |
| horizontal ruler | a ruler displays at the top edge of the document window just below the Ribbon |
| Left Indent marker | allows you to change the entire left margin |
| line spacing | the amount of vertical space between lines of text in a paragraph |
| manual page break | one that you force into the document at a specific location |
| Modern Language Association of America (MLA) | one of two popular documentation styles for research papers |
| note reference mark | signals that an explanatory note exists either at the bottom of the page as a footnote or at the end of the document as an endnote |
| note text | can be any length and format |
| paragraph spacing | the amount of space above and below a paragraph |
| parenthetical citations | placing author references in parentheses with the page number(s) of the referenced information |
| Pasting | the process of copying an item from the Clipboard into the document at the location of the insertion point |
| proofreading | when you look for grammatical errors and spelling errors |
| research paper | a document you can use to communicate the results of research findings |
| right-aligned | at the right margin |
| ruler | the horizontal ruler |
| shortcut keys | or keyboard key combinations, to format text as you type it |
| soft page breaks | a.k.a. automatic page breaks, when it determines the text has filled one page according to paper size, margin settings, line spacing, and other settings |
| synonym | a word similar in meaning, to the duplicate or inappropriate word |
| thesaurus | a book of synonyms |
| vertical ruler | that displays along the left edge of the Word window |
| works cited | refers to the bibliographic list of sources at the end of the paper |
| works cited page | a list of sources that re referenced directly in a research paper |
