Research Unit Vocabulary Quiz

What am I writing about? Take a position and argue your opinion using research, data, and evidence to support your claim.

• in-text citation

• essential question

• transparent

• accuracy

to give a brief statement of the main points

• MLA

• paraphrase

• credentials

• summarize

to restate in other words

• paraphrase

• summarize

• plagiarism

• credentials

something that is word for word of another author

• paraphrase

• objective

• quotations

• subjective

Modern Language Association; guidelines for documenting and citing sources during a research project

• MLA

• works cited

• in-text citation

• credible

a list of sources referred to in the document and is placed at the end of the document

• evaluate

• quotations

• essential question

• works cited

used to give credit to someone else's words in a paper

• plagiarism

• transparent

• in-text citation

• bias

taking credit for someone else's writing or ideas

• in-text citations

• plagiarism

• works cited

• MLA

to critically and carefully judge something

• evaluate

• transparent

• objective

• subjective

able to be believed

• accuracy

• credentials

• bias

• credible