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Match the following branches of the U.S. government with their respective roles:

A source has authority when a writer has the expertise to write about the subject. Always try to determine if the author is a recognized authority or simply a person who decided to write about a particular topic. 

Choose the correct word.  The dog buried its / it’s bone.

Usin exact language from a source, BUT failing to use quotation marks even if you include a citation is considered plagiarism. 

It is valid when analyzing the writer to consider the writer’s background and any preconceptions about the subject that the writer might seem to have. 

When paraphrasing, you give the source’s main ideas in detail, but you use your own words. 

This parenthetical citation is correct: true or false.  Emerson, in one of his famous poems states “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”(Emerson 148).

Choose the correct word.  It is unusual that  their / they’re / there not having a party next door.

The evidence on which you base an inductive conclusion must be representative, not atypical or biased. 

Choose which sentence uses commas correctly.