Research Terms

materials used to gather information: books, encyclopedias, magazines, and online sites

• dictionary

• call number

• resources

• atlas

an alphabetized list of all subjects in a book and their page numbers often placed at the back of a book

• encyclopedia

• index

• dictionary

• thesaurus

to steal information and pass it off as your own work and/or ideas

• stealing

• crediting

• playwright

• plagiarize

the correct way to show where you gathered your information and sources

• cite

• table of contents

• copyright page

• almanac

alphabetical list of all the resources used in a research paper

• bibliography

• cite

• biography

• encyclopedia

up-to-date information about current events, facts, statistics and dates

• atlas

• magazine

• database

• almanac

shows spelling, pronunciation, definitions, part of speech and origins of words

• magazine

• encyclopedia

• thesaurus

• dictionary

the letter and number given to a book in a library by its subject and location: F Johnson or B Lincoln, or 985.31

• call number

• call letter

• shelf ID

• call ID

an online program designed to create list of results for a particular question or topic: Bing, Google, etc.

• database

• search engine

• Google

• atlas

a list of all the topics in a book and their

order found in the front of a book

• glossary

• index

• table of contents

• chapters