Matching Pairs Quarter 2 Vocabulary Matching Online version Words related to MLA format and argumentative writing. 8 ELA by Kylah Gabbert 1 MLA format 2 Thesis Statement 3 Claims 4 Source 5 Relevant Evidence 6 Plagiarism 7 Conclusions 8 Search Engine 9 Counter Claims 10 Transitions the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. words or phrases used to connect ideas together a statement that conveys the central idea about your topic place, person, or thing from which information was gathered Summing up of an argument or text A program that searches for and identifies information in a database; thing Google, JSTOR, etc. A claim made to off-set another claim; also called a rebuttal standards set by the Modern Language Association; changes as necessary evidence related to or connected to a topic something an author states to be true with the evidence to back it up