Vocab Review 2/20

What is bias?

• Any thought or action.

  
  

• Any thought or action that favors inaccurate or superficial information.

  
  

• Any thought or action that favors or prefers one group .

  
  

• Any thought or action that favors or prefers one group over another based on inaccurate or superficial information.

  
  

What does it mean when something is reliable?

• Information cannot be trusted.

• Information is trustworthy and ends in .edu, .org, or .gov

• Information is organized.

• Information is trustworthy and from wikipedia.

What does it mean when information is credible?

• Believable but not convincing.

• Believable and convincing.

• Fake and not real.

• Honest and true.

What is relevant information?

• Information readers can connect with that is timely and new.

• Information readers understand.

• Information readers can connect with that is from the past.

• Information that relates to story.

Fact

• Information supported with your own ideas.

• Information supported with details.

• Information supported with reasoning and evidence.

• Information related to the text.

What is a source?

• My own opinion.

• The type of information you find.

• The ideas in a text.

• The location of a website.

Wikipedia is a reliable source that can be used for my research paper

• No, it is not reliable it can be edited and cannot be used.

• Yes, it is reliable and can be used.

Which of the following are good sites to find information?

• .com or .net

• .edu, .gov, or .org or a news site

• It doesn't actually matter

• .gov only

What is a primary source?

• An idea or goal.

• A point of view.

• A second-hand account of a story.

• A first-hand or original account of an event or time in history.

What is a secondary source?

• A second idea.

• Quotes an original source, but includes more analysis.

  
  

• Something like the Declaration of Independence.

• A creative idea.