| A | B |
|---|
| Audience | Who you are writing for |
| Brainstorming | can be done by free-writes |
| Drafting | writing down your ideas |
| Purpose | the reason you are writing (to inform |
| Editing | checking for grammar |
| Introduction | can start with a strong description |
| Paraphrasing | rewriting what a source says in your own words while staying true to the ideas |
| Parenthetical Documentation | the placement of citations or other documentation in parentheses within a report |
| Plagiarism | passing off the ideas of others as your own |
| Publishing | sharing your writing with others |
| Purposes for Writing | the reason you are writing (to persuade |
| Note Cards | information taken from your source and written on a note card |
| Direct Quote | words copied exactly from a source and set off by quotation marks |
| Revising | improving your writing by looking at ideas and content |
| Summary | a brief restatement of the main idea of a passage |
| Source | information on your topic. Types of sources can include: books |
| Source Card | the publication information written on a note card |
| Thesis Statement | clearly introduces your main idea and your purpose for writing |
| Topic Sentence | a sentence that expresses the main idea of a paragraph |
| Transition | connecting word or phrase that clarifies relationships between details |
| Unity | all paragraphs should relate to your thesis statement |
| Works Cited | the very last page of your research report which lists all of your sources in proper MLA format |
