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Sans Serif | Serif Gutter Bandwagon

Script Copy Hasty Generalization

Header Folio Red Herring

MLA Format Slippery Slope

Serif | Sans Serif• Serif: (noun) a

smaller line used to finish off a main stroke of a letter.

• Sans serif: (noun) a style of type without serifs.

Script• Script: (noun)

handwriting as distinct from print; written characters.

Headline Headline Headline Headline• Headline: (noun) a heading at the top of an article or

page in a newspaper or magazine.

Gutter• Gutter: (noun)

the inner margins of two facing pages

Copy• Copy: (noun) the

written material on the page – mostly used to refer to the article on the spread.

Folio• Folio: (noun) a

sheet of paper folded once to make two leaves, or four pages, of a book or manuscript.

• OR Page number

BandwagonTechnique A propaganda technique that involves encouraging people to think or act in some way simply because other people are doing so.

Plays upon the insecurities of people being left out.

Hasty Generalizations

A propaganda technique that encourages drawing a conclusion based on a small sample size, rather than looking at statistics that are much more in line with the typical or average situation.

“My grandfather smoked a pack of cigarettes a day since he was 14 and lived until 68. So, smoking really can’t be that bad for you.”

Scare-tactic

A propaganda technique that uses fear, not based on evidence or reason, as the primary motivator to get others to accept an idea, proposition, or conclusion.

Red Herring

A propaganda technique that introduces an something irrelevant intended to divert attention from the real problem or matter at hand.

A misleading clue.

Slippery Slope

A fallacy in which a person states that some event must inevitably follow from another without any argument because of the inevitability of the event in question.

How To: MLA Format

In-Text Citations

Author’s last name states (insert summary of statement) (page number.)

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (263).

(Summary of statement) (Author’s last name page number).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth 263).

Bibliography

Begin your Works Cited page on a separate page at the end of your research paper. It should have the same one-inch margins and last name, page number header as the rest of your paper.

Label the page Works Cited (do not italicize the words Works Cited or put them in quotation marks) and center the words Works Cited at the top of the page.

Double space all citations, but do not skip spaces between entries.

Indent the second and subsequent lines of citations by 0.5 inches to create a hanging indent.

List page numbers of sources efficiently, when needed. If you refer to a journal article that appeared on pages 225 through 250, list the page numbers on your Works Cited page as 225-50. Note that MLA style uses a hyphen in a span of pages.