Academic Source

Research that is produced by professional scholar and published in peer-reviewed academic outlet

Nonacademic Sources

Ideas, reporting, and opinions from writers, critics, leaders, and community members that express their viewpoint or experience

Unrestricted Online Research

Online research through a generic search tool that gives the researcher access to free content on the internet

Restricted Online Research

Online research conducted through libraries and databases that are not accessible to the general public

Political Bias

General Slant in reporting that favors either the political left or right in implicit ways

Infotainment

Online and TV personalities that use the news to produce content to entertain, enrage, or work up audiences for profit (Not journalists)

Citing Sources

Crediting original ideas and expression of a speaker or author to that person

Plagiarism

Act of representing the work of another person or institutions as your own

Global Plagiarism

Taking of another person's complete work and attempting to pass it off as your own

Incremental Plagiarism

Reproducing a small section of another person's work without appropriate quoting or citing the material

Patchwork Plagiarism

Taking of statement or ideas from many different sources and combining them into your own without properly citing them

Self-Plagiarism

Unauthorized reuse of one's own work in multiple places or publication outlets

Quote Indicators

Written and spoken cues to the audience that you are moving back and forth between your own argument and statements and that of another persons

Paraphrasing

Restatement of another person or institutions ideas in speakers own words.

Parenthetical References

Reference information placed inside parenthesis at the end of a quote, idea, or quote