| A | B |
| source | a book, article, website used to gather information |
| cite | when you quote, paraphrase or use another author's work |
| works cited | the page of a research paper with a list of sources CITED in the paper |
| parenthesis | () |
| parenthetical citation | a way to give credit to an author whose work you used |
| quote | an exact and verbatim selection from a source, given credit in a citation |
| paraphrase | a way of summarizing to avoid plagiarism |
| MLA | the Modern Language Association |
| MLA format | a way of citing sources |
| thesis | a sentence that states the purpose and topic of the paper |
| plagiarism | when you use any part of another author's work without giving the author credit |