Research Vocabulary

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anything—such as a database article, magazine article, web page, video, person, or book—that provides information for a research paper.

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source

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Plagiarism

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Using someone else’s words or ideas without giving proper credit or giving any credit at all.

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(v) to identify the source of ideas, information, and words that you use in your own writing.

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cite

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(n) a brief citation located within the text of a research paper that identifies a source of information.

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in-text citation

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(n) a phrase that introduces a quote, paraphrase, or summary and which identifies the source of the information or quote

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signal phrase

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(n) a list of full MLA citations for sources that you PLAN to use while writing a research paper.

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Working Bibliography

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a page that lists the sources used in a COMPLETED research paper.

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Works Cited page

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To repeat or copy a group of words from a text or speech, giving proper credit to the author or speaker.

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quote

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(v) to restate what someone else said or wrote in your own words (without shortening it).

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paraphrase

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(v) to give a brief statement of the main idea or points of a passage of writing or other source.

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summarize