Research Vocabulary

your conclusion about a source, based on evidence as to what you hold to be most important or effective.

• influence

• paraphrase

• evaluate

• bibliography

to examine in detail in order to discover the meaning of something.

• bias

• analyze

• credible

• inquiry

a rewording of something written or spoken by someone else.

• paraphrase

• bias

• narrow

• credible

The available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.

• paraphrase

• influence

• bibiliography

• evidence

A list of the books referred to in a scholarly work, typically printed as an appendix.

• paraphrase

• bias

• bibliography

• evaluate

able to be believed; convincing.

• evaluate

• credible

• analyze

• inquiry

To become or make more limited.

• narrow

• influence

• paraphrase

• bias

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

• inquiry

• narrow

• bias

• credible

An act of asking for information.

• inquiry

• evaluate

• narrow

• bias

The capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or decisions of someone or something, or the effect itself.

• narrow

• evidence

• inquiry

• influence