Researching Skills Vocabulary

Knowing and being clear for the people you intend on reading your work is known as knowing your ________.

• friends

• target audience

• teacher

• customers

Getting your facts, data, statistics (concrete details) directly from a person/ item involved with first hand knowledge is pulling information from ________.

• books

• library

• teachers

• primary sources

Getting your facts, data, statistics (concrete details) from a researcher who has gathered this information into a book/source is known as using a _________.

• secondary source

• resource

• library

• primary source

To find your concrete details in more than one source is known as _______.

• relevant information

• researching

• cross referencing

• necessary

Information/ concrete details that directly relate to your research are known as _________.

• reliable

• good details

• research

• relevant

Using only sources that you know have a good reputation for checking and double checking their facts are known as ____ sources.

• reliable

• secondary sources

• online sources

• periodicals

An institution that for years has collected and shared reliable and correctly sourced information are known as _____ sources.

• primary

• good

• reputable

• secondary

A page that give all of the sources used in a research project is a _______ page.

• Works Consulted

• Bibliography

• Works Cited

• Plagiarism

When you do not give credit to your sources properly, you are guilty of _________ .

• plagiarism

• cheating

• sloppy work

• failing

If you use a direct quote copied out of your source, you need to __________ and ____________ to write it correctly.

• reread and use quotation marks

• use quotation marks and cite your source

• underline it and use commas to set it off

• italicize it and write the author's name