Text Evidence

plagiarism

• Taking an author's exact words and writing them as if they are your own.

• Citing an author's work properly in your own writing.

• Paraphrasing an author's ideas without crediting them.

• Using a quote from an author with proper attribution.

text evidence

• supporting proof or clues found in the text used to prove something

• personal opinions or beliefs that are not based on facts

• information that is irrelevant to the main topic

• summary of the text without any supporting details

inference

• a conclusion drawn from personal opinion

• an educated guess based on text evidence and background knowledge

• a random assumption without any basis

• a statement that is always true

paraphrase

• rewriting something written by someone else into your own words without quoting

• copying text verbatim from a source

• summarizing the main ideas of a text

• adding personal opinions to a text

direct quote

• writing something that an author wrote word for word (use quotation marks)

• paraphrasing an author's ideas in your own words

• summarizing the main points of a text

• adding your own interpretation to a text

quotation marks

• set of punctuation marks used for "dialogue" and "quotes"

• a type of punctuation used for emphasis

• symbols used to denote a list

• marks indicating the end of a sentence

cite

• to give credit to the author/text where you got information

• to summarize the main ideas of a text

• to analyze the themes of a literary work

• to provide a personal opinion on a subject

dialogue

• the spoken words of characters enclosed in quotation marks

• a type of narrative that describes events

• a character's internal thoughts

• a summary of the plot