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| plagiarism | Òstealing and passing off as one's own the ideas |
| citation | Òa reference to a specific source (book |
| evidence | Òinformation and facts that help prove or disprove an assertion or claim |
| thesis | the sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the author's assertion or claimÓ |
| relevant | connected with or related to the matter at hand |
| reliable | worthy of trust or belief |
| summarize | to briefly state main points in your own words |
| paraphrase | restate a passage in one's own words while retaining the meaning of the author; restatement of a text in other words |
| revise | rewrite or reorganize |
| edit | Òcorrecting errors (spelling |
| evaluate | Òto consider or examine something in order to judge its value |
| analyze | Òto examine carefully; study closelyÓ |
| direct quote | Òcopying from a source |
| complete plagiarism | the student submits another's work in its entirety as his or her own |
| partial plagiarism | the student lifts significant portions of another text and uses them in his or her own work |
| patchwork plagiarism | Òthe student copies ideas |
| lazy plagiarism | Òthe student is guilty of sloppy note-taking or research shortcuts |
| reworded plagiarism | the student repeatedly paraphrases without giving creditÓ |
| integrity | Òhonesty |
| italics | Òa printing style with the letters slanting to the right |
| ellipses | used to show an omission of words from quoted material (. . . ) |
| attributive tag | Òpart of a sentence that (1) indicates who said a direct quote |
| parenthetical citation | ÒMLA in-text citation typically consisting of the source author's name and a page number |
| MLA (Modern Language Association) | Òa set of formatting and content guidelines |
| Works Cited page | an alphabetical list of all the sources cited in a research paper (sources you acknowledge by including parenthetical/in-text citations)Ó |
