西南大学 论文写作复习提纲

外国语学院英语专业2008级本科“论文写作”复习提纲 I. Define the following terms:

1. Research paper

2. Course paper

3. Term paper

4. B.A. thesis

5. PhD dissertation

6. APA style

7. MLA style

8. Thesis proposal

9. Thesis statement

10. Key words

11. Abstract

12. Topic outline and sentence outline

13. Direct quotation

14. Indirect quotation

15. Block quotation

16. Documentation

17. In-text citations

18. Ibid

19. Sic

20. Italics

21. Square brackets

22. Underlining

23. Electronic sources

24. Endnotes

25. Footnotes

26. Bibliography

27. References

28. Works cited

29. Cross-reference

30. Plagiarism

II. Write entries, according to the given information, in the appropriate format for Works Cited or References as can often be found at the end of a research paper. While in Section A, the given information is required to be arranged into entries following the APA style, in Section B, the MLA style is to be observed. For each of the two sections, choose the appropriate term from “Works Cited” and “References”, use it as the heading for your list of entries, and put it at the proper place. Arrange the entries in each section in the correct order.

A. Write and arrange cited sources by the APA format.

P.-S. Laplace wrote the book “A philosophical essay on probabilities” and published it in 1814. You only referred to the translated version by F.W. Truscott and F.L. Emory, which was published by Dover in New York in 1951.

B. Write and arrange cited sources by the MLA format.

John Hellermann wrote an article entitled “The interactive work of prosody in the IRF exchange: Focus on teacher repetition in feedback moves”. The article was published in the 1st issue of Volume 32 of the famous journal “Language in the Society” in 2003, ranging between Page 79 to Page 104.

参考答案：

Part A (APA style)

Laplace, P.-S. (1951). A philosophical essay on probabilities (F.W. Truscott & F.L.

Emory, Trans.). New York: Dover. (Original work published 1814)

Part B (MLA style)

Hellermann, John. “The Interactive Work of Prosody in the IRF Exchange: Focus on

Teacher Repetition in Feedback Moves.” 79-104.