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Vocabulary Thingy

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    This game is about vocabulary for writing and citations.
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  • Using someone else’s words exactly as they are written
    Direct Quote
  •  15
  • Using someone else’s ideas and putting them in your own words
    Paraphrasing
  •  15
  • In research, a place that you find information
    Source
  •  15
  • Recording information that allows another person to locate the source that you have used for your paper, also called “documenting”
    Citing
  •  15
  • A reference inside of your text
    in-text citation
  •  15
  • To steal or pass off the ideas or words of another as one's own; to use someone else's ideas or words without crediting the source
    Plagiarism
  •  15
  • Refers to the “believability” of a source
    Credibility
  •  15
  • A system to organize and store large amounts of data easily; access is often by subject; most libraries pay fees for databases
    Database
  •  15
  • A research tool within Google designed for scholarly information gathering
    Google Scholar
  •  15
  • A document or physical object that was written or created during the time under study
    Primary Source
  •  15
  • A source that interprets or analyzes primary sources; may have pictures, quotes, or graphics or primary sources in them
    Secondary Source
  •  15
  • A type of source; a magazine or newspaper published at regular intervals
    Periodical
  •  15
  • Designates that a source has been reviewed by people in the same field as the author; generally deemed more credible than sources not peer-reviewed
    Peer Reviewed
  •  15