Sarah Lay

Unit 2 Vocabulary

Academic Article/Scholarly Article: A contribution written for publication in a journal,

magazine, or newspaper
APA (American Psychological Association) Citation: documentation used in the social sciences
Call Number: a series of numbers and letters which identifies a particular book or item in the
librarys collection.
Copyright: the right to use a literary, musical, or artistic work
Database: a collection of information, usually stored in an electronic format that can be searched
by a computer.
Design: The way a text is arranged and presented visually.
Fair Use: it is the exception to copyright law and it permits limits use of copyrighted materials.
ILL (interlibrary loan): a service that allows you to borrow materials from other libraries through
your own library.
Journal: a publication, issued on a regular basis, which contains scholarly research published as
articles, papers, research reports, or technical reports.
MLA (Modern Language Association) Citation: commonly used in the Humanities and Liberal
Arts.
Paraphrase: used for information that isnt common knowledge, but the exact wording isnt
necessary to get the point across.
Plagiarism: is the act of using someone elses work and representing it as your own.
Primary Research: it is accounts from newspapers or a person firsthand.
Public Domain: a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expired
Quotation: authors exact words; used when the author uses strong, eloquent language or
complex ideas.
Secondary Research: it is accounts from scholarly articles and summaries from people who is
recounting it from somewhere else.
Stacks: the area where library collections are shelved.
Style: The manner of expression characteristic of a particular writer or of a literary group or
period

Summary: start with the major claim from the author and build up on it with details from the
passage.
Tone: readers judgment of what a text sounds like
U-Borrow: books from Big Ten schools that you can check out if the Purdue Library doesnt own
a copy.