Research Unit Vocab

The address for your source. Author, title, publisher, date, etc. This information is organized according to MLA style in the works cited page.

• Bibliographic information

• Categorizing

• Drafting

The process for sorting through and organizing the research notes. For example, research papers can be organized by cause/effect relationships, comparison, persuasive appeals, problem/solution, etc.

• MLA style

• Categorizing

• Transitions

Specific opinions about each concrete detail. It must be: directly related to the concrete detail, specific, and focused on the overall topic of the paragraph it is a part of

• Bibliographic information

• Thesis

• Commentary

What has been discovered through the writing of the paper. It should consist of commentary and should not repeat phrases found elsewhere in the paper. This should make a strong stance about the topic.

• Conclusion

• Thesis

• Revising

A specific example used to support the topic sentence. It can be a quote, fact, summary, paraphrase, or other illustration.

• Format

• Concrete detail

• Topic sentence

The specific idea on which the research is focused. In the final draft, this changes into a thesis statement.

• Paraphrase

• Conclusion

• Controlling idea/question

Giving credit to the source from which the ideas, quotes, or information came.

• Documentation

• Quotation

• Concrete detail

The process of taking the research and writing it in expository form.

• Revising

• Drafting

• Editing

The process of checking spelling, grammatical usage, and punctuation.

• Drafting

• Revising

• Editing

The physical parameters of the report: spacing, punctuation, font size and style.

• Format

• Thesis

• Transitions