Vocab week 1

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Using someone else's work or ideas without giving proper credit.

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Plagiarism

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Restate information in your own words.

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Paraphrase

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Give a brief overview of the main points of a text.

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Summarize

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Punctuation marks used to highlight titles of short works like poems, songs, or articles, and to show dialogue in stories.

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Quotation Marks

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The exact words someone has spoken or written, copied word-for-word and enclosed in quotation marks.

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Direct Quotation

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A brief reference within your text that gives credit to the source of information.

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In-text citation

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A list of all sources cited in a paper, placed at the end of the document.

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Works cited page

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A style guide for writing and formatting papers developed by the Modern Language Association.

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MLA Format

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A title or label at the beginning of a section or document that tells readers what the section is about.

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Heading

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Information at the top of each page, typically including the author's last name and page number.

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MLA Style Headers