Academic Vocab: Research

Match the following

• influenced by personal feelings

• ambiguity

• uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in

• objective

• o study of something closely & carefully

• analyze

• an original source

• subjective

• represents facts without personal bias

• primary source

Match the following

• sources that comment on primary sources

• thesis

• using unattributed information

• plagiarism

• o provide a brief statement of the main

• summarize

• underlying meaning of a literary work

• secondary source

• info provided to support the topic

• supporting detail

What makes a source credible? Check all that apply.

• The date it was published

• Who wrote it

• Where it was first published

• How well you agree with it

What is bias?

• Taking one side

• Ignoring information that is available

• Not listening to other people's opinions

• A prejudice in favor or against something

It is where you get your information from

• citation

• works cited

• source

• paraphrase

the important information necessary to re-locate your source

• citation

• source

• plagiarism

• bibliography

putting information into your own words

• summarizing

• paraphrasing

• plagiarism

• works cited

What is the best definition for what it means to paraphrase?

• Finding pairs of words

• Putting somebody else's words into your own words

• Making sentences sound better

• Showing how much you know

Which is the best paraphrase of the following sentence?

Deserts cover one fifth of the surface of the Earth.

• Deserts cover one fifth of the Earth.

• Deserts cover a lot of area.

• Deserts cover more than half of the Earth's surface.

• One fifth of the Earth's surface is desert.