ENGLISH COMP 2 midterm

when quoting more than three lines of poetry, more than four lines of prose, or dialogue between two or more characters from a drama, set off the quotation from the rest of your text, indenting it one inch (or ten spaces) from the left margin.

block quote

a type of MLA paragraph formatting where the first line begins at the left margin and all the following lines are indented by a set amount (0.5).

hanging indent

_____ are used to distinguish the ideas of the writer from the ideas of the sources he or she uses for support.

In-text citations

_____ is when the meaning of a text is important to your argument but the original language is not essential, or when you’re clarifying or interpreting the ideas (not the words) in the text.

paraphrasing

_____ is using another writer’s exact words without quotation marks, ! (2) using another writer’s words or ideas without intext citation or other documentation, ! (3) paraphrasing or summarizing someone else’s ideas using language or sentence structure that is close to the original.

Plagiarism

_______ is a text when the exact wording is critical to making your point (or that of an authority you wish to cite), or when the wording itself is part of what you’re analyzing.

Quoting

A ______ is a phrase, clause, or sentence that introduces a quotation, paraphrase, or summary in writing.

Signal Phrase

______ is when the main points of the text are important to your argument but the details can be left out in the interest of conciseness.

Summarizing

How does a writer decide if he or she should quote, paraphrase, or summarize source material when writing a research paper?

QUOTE- a text when the exact wording is critical to making your point or when the wording itself is part of what you're analyzing.
PARAPHRASE-when the meaning of a text is important to your argument but the original language is not essential, or when you're clarifying or interpreting the ideas in the text.
SUMMARIZE- when the main points of the text are important to your argument but the details can be left out in the interest of conciseness.

Required in text citations

paraphrases, summaries, quotes (including block quotes)

How does a writer signify that his or her own words have been inserted into source material quoted in the paper?

brackets

How does a writer signify that he or she has removed a portion of the original text from source material quoted in the paper?

ellipses

According to MLA, how should titles of articles and titles of books be formatted?

articles in quotations, books in italicize