Academic Source
Research that is produced by professional scholar and published in peer-reviewed academic outlet
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |