Research Terms

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

• dictionary

• call number

• resources

• atlas

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

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

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CCSS.L.11-12.1B

CCSS.L.11-12.3A

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

• stealing

• crediting

• playwright

• plagiarize

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CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

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

• cite

• table of contents

• copyright page

• almanac

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CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

alphabetical list of all the resources used in a research paper

• bibliography

• cite

• biography

• encyclopedia

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

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

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

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

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CCSS.L.11-12.1B

CCSS.L.11-12.3A

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

• database

• search engine

• Google

• atlas

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CCSS.RI.2.7

CCSS.RI.3.7

CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

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

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C