English Comp 2, Midterm

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A tentative answer to a research question that is subject to testing and modification during the research process.

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Hypothesis

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A brief statement (one or two sentences) of a text’s main claim.

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Thesis

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A list of sources a researcher compiles before and during the research process.

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Working Bibliography

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A bibliography that includes not only retrieval information for each source but also information about the source, such as its content, its relevance to the writer’s project, or the writer’s evaluation of it.

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Annotated Bibliography

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The process of dividing an entity, concept, or text into its component parts to study its meaning and function. Analysis is central to critical reading and is a common strategy for developing paragraphs and essays in academic writing.

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Analysis

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A publication, such as a magazine, newspaper, or scholarly journal, that is issued at regular intervals—daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly.

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Periodical

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A collection of data, now usually available in digital form. In research, databases provide citations to articles in periodicals (academic journals, magazines, and newspapers.)

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Databases

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Overview of a text, with a summary of its main claims and most important supporting points.

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Abstracts

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The extent to which supporting evidence not only addresses the general topic of a text but also contributes to the reader’s understanding of or belief in the text’s main idea (the thesis). A relevant source offers information that will enrich understanding, provide background information or evidence to support claims, or suggest alternative perspectives.

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Relevance

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Special knowledge, training, or experience in a specific field. Someone with expertise is an expert or authority.

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Expertise

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A text is objective when it makes reasonable claims supported by logical evidence; recognizes alternative perspectives; and treats those alternatives respectfully.

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Objectivity

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A participant or stakeholder who might personally benefit from the results of a decision, event, or process has a vested (not objective) interest in that decision, or process and thus might influence it not for the welfare of others but for personal gain.

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Vested Interest

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The ending of the main portion of a URL; the most common domains are .com, .edu, .gov, .net, .org.

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Domain

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Corporations, agencies, and organizations that are responsible for creating and making available a website’s content. 

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Sponsors

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Presenting a work or a portion of a work of any kind—a paper, a photograph, a speech, a web page—by someone else as if it were one’s own. 

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Plagiarism

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A faulty paraphrase that relies too heavily on the language or sentence structure of the source text. Patchwritten texts may replace some terms from the source passage with synonyms, add or delete a few words, or alter the sentence structure slightly. but they do not put the passage fully into fresh words and sentences. At some colleges and universities, ___ is considered plagiarism.

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Patchwriting

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Information that is available from three or more sources and that is considered factual and incontestable. Common knowledge does not require documentation.

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Common Knowledge

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The statement of the ideas of others in one’s own words and sentence structures.

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Paraphrase

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A passage restating the main idea and major supporting points of a source in the reader’s own words and sentence structures. A summary is usually at lease 50 percent shorter than the text it restates.

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Summary

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A restatement of what someone else has said or written, either in a direct quotation (word for word) or indirect quotation (a report of what was said or written).

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Quotation

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The stage of the writing process in which the writer assesses global issues such as whether the text fulfills its purpose, addresses its intended audience, is fully developed, and is organized clearly and logically; also the stage in which the writer accesses local issues such as word choice, sentence variety and emphasis, and wordiness.

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Revision

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Your main reason for writing; to express your feelings or impressions or to entertain, inform, or persuade your audience.

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Purpose

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The acknowledgement of sources in the body of a research project, usually tagged to a bibliography, works-cited list, or reference list.

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Citations

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Naming the source of information, words, or ideas while providing information about the source or your attitude toward it.

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Rhetorical Citations

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A citation that appears in the body of the research project.

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In-Text Citation

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A phrase that identifies, discusses, or describes the author or source being cited: “How do I know what to think,” E.M. Foster said, “until I see what I say?"

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Signal Phrase