Research Process Quiz

Identify which sources listed below would be considered credible sources:
Research trends in police brutality

• Grad student blog about your topic
• NYTimes.com

Identify which sources listed below would be considered credible sources:
Research about the space program

• Dictionary.com
• Wikipedia

Identify which sources listed below would be considered credible sources:
Research about Mark Twain

• Yelp.com
• galileo.com

Identify which sources listed below would be considered credible sources:  
Research on heart disease

• Interview with a doctor 
• Interview with a chef

_{Determine if the student writing in the following examples is plagiarism or not:  
Source: Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies. New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 1999. 159.  
 "The ways in which domesticated animals have diverged from their wild ancestors include the following. Many species changed in size: cows, pigs, and sheep became smaller under domestication, while guinea pigs became larger."  
Student Writing Sample # 1 There are many differences between domesticated and wild animals.}

• Plagiarism
• Not Plagiarism

Determine if the student writing is plagiarism or not plagiarism:
Source: Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies. New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 1999. 159.  
 "The ways in which domesticated animals have diverged from their wild ancestors include the following. Many species changed in size: cows, pigs, and sheep became smaller under domestication, while guinea pigs became larger."  
Student Writing Sample # 2
 Domesticated animals diverged from their wild ancestors in numerous ways. Animals such as cows became smaller, while animals such as guinea pigs became larger.

• Plagiarism
• Not Plagiariam

Determine if the student writing is plagiarism or not plagiarism:
Source: Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies. New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 1999. 159.  
 "The ways in which domesticated animals have diverged from their wild ancestors include the following. Many species changed in size: cows, pigs, and sheep became smaller under domestication, while guinea pigs became larger."  
Student Writing Sample # 3: A careful examination of the ways in which domesticated animals have diverged from their wild ancestors shows that cows, pigs, and sheep became smaller under domestication, while guinea pigs became larger.

• Plagiarism
• Not Plagiariam

Determine if the student writing is plagiarism or not plagiarism:
Source: Moers, Ellen. "Female Gothic: The Monster's Mother." Frankenstein. Ed. J. Paul Hunter. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1996. 214.  
"In Gothic writings fantasy predominates over reality, the strange over the commonplace, and the supernatural over the natural, with one definite authorial intent: to scare. Not, that is, to reach down into the depths of the soul and purge it with pity and terror (as we say tragedy does), but to get to the body itself, its glands, epidermis, muscles, and circulatory system, quickly arousing and quickly allaying the physical reactions to fear."  
Student Writing Sample : According to Ellen Moers, Gothic writings "get to the body itself, its glands, epidermis, muscles, and circulatory system, quickly arousing and quickly allaying the physical reactions to fear" (214)

• Plagiarism
• Not Plagiariam

Source: Moers, Ellen. "Female Gothic: The Monster's Mother." Frankenstein. Ed. J. Paul Hunter. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1996. 214.  
 "In Gothic writings fantasy predominates over reality, the strange over the commonplace, and the supernatural over the natural, with one definite authorial intent: to scare. Not, that is, to reach down into the depths of the soul and purge it with pity and terror (as we say tragedy does), but to get to the body itself, its glands, epidermis, muscles, and circulatory system, quickly arousing and quickly allaying the physical reactions to fear."  
Student Writing Sample: Gothic novels such as Frankenstein were written with one definite authorial intent: to scare (Moers 214).

• Not Plagiarism
• Plagiarism

What is the importance of using notecards when doing research

• Helps you with your grade
• Helps with organization
• What's a note card?