Research Vocabulary Practice

Created by someone who did not experience first-hand or participate in the events you're researching.

• Bias

• Secondary Sources

• Primary Sources

• Annotation

A quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work.

• Quote

• Suggestion

• Citation

• Bias

Able to be believed; convincing.

• Credible

• Bias

• Incredible

• Thesis

The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.

• Borrowing

• Plagiarism

• Paraphrasing

• Summary

A brief statement or account of the main points of something.

• Thesis

• Discussion

• Secondary Sources

• Summarize

Immediate, first-hand accounts of a topic, from people who had a direct connection with it. They may have witnessed the event or know people who did.

• Secondary Sources

• Primary Sources

• Annotations

• Bias

Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

• Credible

• Annotation

• Bias

• Summary

A statement that a person wants to discuss or prove.

• Summary

• Annotation

• Plagiarism

• Thesis

A note of explanation or comment added to a text or diagram.

• Annotation

• Summarize

• Thesis

• Paraphrase

Involves taking a passage - either spoken or written - and rewording it in your own words.

• Annotation

• Paraphrase

• Summarize

• Plagiarize