Introducing the Research Process

Primary sources of data ...

• Are the sources with the most advertisement

• provide firsthand accounts of an event or topic by someone who has direct experience with it

• provide secondhand accounts of a topic

• describe, analyze, or summarize primary sources

A blogger shares his opinion about a historical event. The blog he wrote is ...

• A primary resource

• Not a resource of data

• A secondary resource

• All are incorrect

A memoir or diary of an important figure is ...

• A primary resource

• Not a resource of data

• A secondary resource

• All are incorrect

An article on a newspaper written about a celebrity is most likely to be ...

• A primary resource

• Not a resource of data

• A secondary resource

• All are incorrect

Encyclopedias are considered as ...

• A primary resource

• Not a resource of data

• A secondary resource

• All are incorrect

Which answer is not considered as a trustworthy research source?

• Books

• Encyclopedias

• Magazines

• Journals

• Tik Tok videos

Which information is from a primary source?

• a text book that explains the events of World War I

• an autobiography of a person who survived the famous sinking of a ship called the Titanic

• a magazine article about a rock band

• a biography of a famous artist written by an art expert

Which question will not help you evaluate whether a source is reliable or not?

• Who wrote the information?

• How many positive reviews and stars does this source have?

• Is the information based on trustworthy sources?

• What Is the author’s purpose?

• When was the information written?

Which advice is bad for choosing a research topic?

• You should first understand the writing prompt given by teachers.

• You should learn to estimate the length of your writing to see if the topic is too wide or narrow.

• You can search Internet sources to find general information about the topic.

• You should choose a topic that you can easily find the information about on the internet.

• Choose a specific part of the general topic.

Which advice is appropriate for narrowing a topic?

• The topic should contain at least 10 subtopics.

• The topic should contain around 03 subtopics.

• The topic should not contain any subtopic.

• The topic should contain more than 10 subtopics.