research process 9

Read the paragraph.

What was most likely this student’s research question?

 A food chain is a series of links between plants and animals. It starts with a plant. The next part of the link is a plant eater. When the prairie plants started to die or be replaced with houses and roads, the animals that depended on them lost their good source. So while the farmers produced more food for people, they broke the animals’ food chain and the animals died or had to move. This was a great mistake. We are paying for that mistake today. And people still keep making that mistake. They keep breaking the food chains.

• What mistake did humans make when first settling in the prairies?

• What food chain are farmers a part of?

• Where are food chains the biggest?

• What is a food chain?

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CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

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A reporter is writing an article on how the government’s budget may change. Which option is the most appropriate research question for this article?

• Which government expenses do you think should be cut?

• Which government expenses will likely be cut next year?

• What is the largest government expense?

• What is the total dollar amount of government expenses?

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

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CCSS.RL.3.1

Read the research question: “How did soldiers use bayonets to win the Battle of Alma in World War I?”

Which option shows the best way to broaden the research question?

• How were the bayonets used in World War I manufactured?

• How did the use of bayonets affect the outcome of World War I?

• How were soldiers trained in the use of bayonets prior to World War I?

• How did soldiers use bayonets to win the Battle of Verdun in World War I?

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

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How did soldiers use bayonets to win the Battle of Verdun in World War I?

• How do local and state governments coordinate to solve crimes?

• How do local, state, and federal governments coordinate?

• Which is most important: state or local government?

• Which is better funded: state or local government?

Which is better funded: state or local government?

• Are the rules about how medicine prices are regulated changing?

• Are the rules about how medicine prices are regulated fair?

• Are medicine prices rising since last year?

• Are medicine prices too high for some people to afford?

Which of these is an efficient way to refine a search on the web?

• Placing quotation marks around key phrases.

• Clicking on links marked "Download PDF."

• Avoiding and omitting vocabulary keywords.

• Adding the search term "Wikipedia" to bring up results from that website.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Which of these websites is the BEST place to find original research papers online?

• How Stuff Works.

• Google Scholar.

• Google.

• Wikipedia Scholar.

Which source would be most effective in answering the following research question: What is meant by the term “clean coal,” and can coal ever be clean? Write a research paper defining “clean coal” and exploring technologies that purport to make coal mining “clean.”

• A speech in which the president touts increasing clean coal jobs

• An interview with an oil rig worker

• An article about coal mining pollution

• An encyclopedia article about the history of coal mining

Plagiarism is best described as…

• disrespect for copyright law.

• a tribute to a talented writer.

• the intentional theft of another's words.

• the theft of another's ideas.

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Does paraphrasing text from a source eliminate the need for citation?

• No, because every idea in a research paper must be cited.

• Yes, because you are no longer using words from the source.

• No, because you are still using the ideas of another.

• Yes, because you are expressing a new idea.

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