Research Skills: Vocabulary

Your teacher wants you to write a report about a natural disaster. Choose the correct order of the steps from the choices below:
A. Make a list of questions about your topic
B. Decide upon a topic
C. Find information on your topic
D. List what you already know

• A, B, C, D
• B, D, A, C
• D, A, C, B
• B, A, C, D

You have to do a project on inventions. Which library resource would be the best place to look for background information?

• Encyclopedia
• Magazine databases
• Nonfiction videos
• Fiction books

You are researching the pros and cons of bottled water. Which resource would be most likely to include biased information about your topic?

• Government website
• Magazine article about bottling
• Encyclopedia article about bottling
• Bottling company newsletter

What is the best reason for citing your sources?

• Citing identifies sources that your classmates may want to use.
• Citing shows your teacher that you did your research.
• Citing gives credit for the original work or the idea to the author.
• Citing gives the location of the sources you used.

What is the main purpose of a copyright? 

• To protect the user of a creative work
• To protect the buyer of a creative work
• To protect the creator of a creative work 
• To protect the copier of a creative work 

What is the main advantage of using online sources in addition to printed materials?

• Online sources have more trustworthy information than printed sources 
• It's faster and often easier to access online sources 
• Online sources are the easiest sources of information to cite in a bibliography 
• The Internet contains more information than books

The concept of a source being trustworthy:

• accuracy
• relevancy
• timeliness

This is what you use to locate a webpage:

• cite
• web-address (URL)
• title
• source

These are places where you get information for your research:

• authors
• sources
• publishers
• online databases

A difference between a "story" and an "article" is:

• they are the same thing - both mean writing
• a story is longer than an article
• a story may be fiction; an article is non-fiction
• a story is shorter than an article