literature matching quiz

The address for your source. Author, title, publisher, date, etc. This info needs to be organized according to MLA style in the student's works cited page.

• categorizing

• bibliographic information

• MLA style

• bibliography cards

contain the bibliographic info for one source. Students will complete a bibliography card for each of the sources they use. These cards should be placed in alphabetical order.

• commentary

• bibliographic information

• bibliography cards

• concrete detail

the process for sorting through and organizing the research note cards. For example, research papers can be categorized by cause/effect relationships, comparisons, persuasive appeals, problem/solution, qualities of an object, etc.

• categorizing

• controlling idea/questions

• paraphrase

• concrete detail

specific opinions expressed by the student about each concrete detail. Commentary must be directly related to the concrete detail, must be specific, and must be focused upon the overall topic of the paragraph of which it appears.

• editing

• categorizing

• drafting

• commentary

record of what has been discovered through the writing of the paper. A student's conclusion should almost entirely consist of commentary and it should not repeat phrases and sentences found elsewhere in the paper.

• conclusion

• format

• paraphrase

• editing

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

• commentary

• concrete detail

• bibliographic information

• MLA style

the specific idea that the project is shaped around. In the final draft of the paper, the controlling idea changes into a thesis statement.

• paraphrase

• commentary

• conclusion

• controlling idea/questions

the process of taking the research that has been done and writing it out in expository form.

• conclusion

• editing

• format

• drafting

the process of checking spelling, grammatical usage, and punctuation

• editing

• drafting

• format

• paraphrase

the physical parameters of the report. Spacing, punctuation, font size, and style are issues of format. The format for this paper must follow MLA guidelines.

• MLA style

• commentary

• format

• categorizing