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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: (noun) handwriting as distinct from print; written characters.

Headline: (noun) a heading at the top of an article or page in a newspaper or magazine.

Gutter: (noun) the inner margins of two facing pages

Copy: (noun) the written material on the page – mostly used to refer to the article on the spread.

Folio: (noun) a sheet of paper folded once to make two leaves, or four pages, of a book or manuscript. OR Page number

 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.

 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.”

 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.

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

 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.

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 Note that MLA style uses a hyphen in a span of pages.