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| research paper | a document you can use to communicate the results of research findings you learn about a particular topic from a variety of sources |
| MLA | Modern Language Association of America is a documentation style used in a wide range of disciplines especially in the liberal arts and humanities areas of study. |
| APA | American Psychological Association is a documentation styles used to cite sources within the social sciences such as psychology. |
| parenthetical references | in-text documentation used in the MLA style of research |
| works cited | a source directly referenced or used in a research paper |
| style | a named group of formatting characteristics including font and font size |
| normal style | the default style of 11 point Calibri font that Word uses until it is changed to another style |
| line spacing | the amount of vertical space between lines of text in a paragraph that can be selected in the Paragraph Group |
| paragraph spacing | the amount of space above and below a paragraph |
| double-space | the vertical space that is equal to one blank line between each line of text and above and below paragraphs |
| header | text and/or graphics that print at the top of each page in a document separate from the document text |
| footer | text and/or graphics that print at the bottom of every page separate from the document text |
| right-aligned | text that is aligned or printed at the right margin |
| plagiarize | taking someone else’s work and using it as your own without proper documentation or permission |
| click and type | a feature to format and enter text |
| keyboard shortcuts | common shortcut key commands used to format text without the use of the mouse |
| horizontal ruler | a ruler displayed horizontally at the top of a document window |
| vertical ruler | a ruler displayed vertically at the left edge of a document window |
| first-line indent | using the ruler to indent just the first line of a paragraph |
| first-line indent marker | the top triangle at the 0” mark on the horizontal ruler |
| left-indent marker | the small square at the 0” mark that allows you to change the entire left margin using the horizontal ruler |
| autocorrect | a Word feature that automatically corrects spelling |
| autocorrect options button | a button displayed when the small blue box under an autocorrected error is clicked that allows you to undo a correction or change how Word handles future automatic corrections of text |
| note reference mark | a superscript (raised number) used with the MLA documentation style to signal that a note exists either at the bottom of the page as a footnote or at the end of the document as an endnote |
| footnote | a referenced note located at the bottom of a page of a research document |
| end note | a referenced note located at the end of a research document |
| superscript | a number |
| note text | the text in a reference that is numbered sequentially with a note reference mark both in the body of the document and to the left of the note text and can be any length and format in Word |
| automatic page breaks/soft page breaks | the process Word used to automatically insert page breaks when it determines that text has filled one page according to paper size |
| background repagination | page recalculation between keystrokes or between the pauses in typing that Word refers to the automatic page break task |
| works cited page | a page with an alphabetical list of sources referenced or cited directly in a research paper |
| bibliography | an alphabetical list of all the material you have consulted in preparing a research document or essay regardless of whether or not you have actually referred to or cited the work |
| manual page break/hard page break | a page break that the typist forces into the document at a specific location that Word never moves or adjusts like it does the automatic/soft page break |
| hanging indent | a paragraph format in which the first full line of text is not indented and hangs to the left of the rest of the paragraph but the following lines are indented |
| hanging indent marker | the bottom triangle on the horizontal ruler used to set the hanging indent at a specified location from the left margin |
| proofreading | to check document text for grammatical |
| proofreaders’ marks | universal marks or symbols used to identify different types of formatting |
| Office clipboard | a temporary storage area that holds up to 24 items (text or graphics) copied from an Office program which works with the copy |
| copying | the process of placing items on the Office Clipboard to be used later while leaving the item in the document |
| cutting | removes an item from the document before placing it on the Office clipboard |
| pasting | the process of copying an item from the Office Clipboard into a document at the location of the insertion point |
| synonym | a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase (i.e. alternate is another word for substitute) |
| Thesaurus | a book of synonyms that is provided as a resource reference in Word |
