Informative Essay Vocabulary

Plagiarism

• based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions

• note cards that cite each source exactly as you will use them on your work cited page

• the use of a source of information that you do not properly cite

• in a book, an alphabetical listing of topics and pages on which information about them can be found

objective

• not influenced by personal opinions

• to provide a brief statement of the main points

• researched data

• based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions

evidence

• a source that comments on, analyzes, or otherwise relies on primary sources

• something which shows that something else exists or is true

• the activity of getting information about a subject

• a publication issued at regular intervals

central idea

• based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions

• to provide a reference to a source

• the main idea

• researched data for use in a report

source

• researched data for use in a report

• a word or concept of great significance

• a reference to a source that provides enough information to allow a reader to retrieve it

• an original source, such as a speech, a diary, a novel, a bill, or an eyewitness account

parenthetical citation

• an alphabetized list of sources, which appears at the end of your research paper

• to provide a brief statement of the main points

• a subject for a composition or essay

• citations to original sources that appear in the text of a paper

cite

• a word or concept of great significance

• to provide a reference to a source

• uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language

• information provided that supports the topic sentence or thesis

summarize

• to provide a brief statement of the main points

• express the meaning of the writer or speaker using different words

• a source that comments on, analyzes, or otherwise relies on primary sources

• the main idea

paraphrase

• to provide a brief statement of the main points

• express the meaning of the writer or speaker using different words

• a word or concept of great significance

• researched data for use in a report

supporting detail

• something which shows that something else exists or is true

• information provided that supports the topic sentence or thesis

• a subject for a composition or essay

• citations to original sources that appear in the text of a paper