| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Biography | a book about a person's life written by someone else. |
| Autobiography | a book that someone writes about his or her own life |
| Memoir | A book a person writes about a particular time in his or her own life: it does not cover from birth to death |
| Diary/Journal | a day to day account of a person's life |
| Essay | A short nonfiction work about a particular topic: it looks at on subject in a limited way |
| Historical Documents or speeches | offical statements that record the social and political beliefs of groups of people and individuals in history and expose readers to the language of the time |
| periodicals | a newspaper of magazine that is disributed monthly weekly or daily |
| Interview | A one on one conversation in which questions are asked and answered |
| Documentary | A nonfiction film that uses primary and seconday sources. |
| Offical Document/records | Examples include a birth certificate, death certificate, marriage license, police reports, etc. |
| Primary source | A first hand account; it is reliable |
| secondary source | decription by a person usally not at the event; not as reliable |
| exposition | writing or speech that explains/informs somthing |
| Paraphrasing | rewriting or restating another persons ideas or thoughts into your own words |
| Summarizing | A shortened vesrion of a paraohrase, it retains the writers main idea and point of view but condenses the material |
| Source Reliability | current author has credentials,etc (Seeing if an author is credible and trustworthy is checing for________) |
| Works cited/bibliography | a list of sources used in a nonfiction work and placed at the end of the paper |
| Plagiarism | taking someone elses words or ideas and making them yours with out proper credit |
| Parenthetical citation | How sources are cited in a n essay using MLA in parenteses (also called in text citation or internal documentation) |
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