To get started with brainstorming, you can try creating a ________ map. This should help organize your thinking and allow you to explore all the different aspects of a topic.

(Select all that apply.) A good research question is...

Unbiased questions...

Focused questions...

Open-ended questions...

As you begin using databases for research, you must be careful in developing _______. Always ask what words and phrases you think someone writing on your topic might use.

(Select all that apply.) Some knowledgeable people to consult would be...

Among the most helpful guides to library resources are ________ guides, also known as subject guides or sometimes as libguides. These lists of your library's resources are focused around specific topics.

General sources, also known as _______ sources, are a good way to get background information quickly.

T/F: You can generally rely on reference sources to write a research paper.

An encyclopedia article frequently concludes with a brief _______ describing important books and articles on the subject, which can be another important resource.

(Select all that apply.) What are the main limitations of encyclopedia articles, according to the text?

You will likely find it helpful to consult both ___(1)____ and ___(2)_____ encyclopedias.

___(1)_____ encyclopedias restrict themselves to a particular disciplinary area and are considerably more detailed in their treatment of a subject than are ___(2)____ encyclopedias.

Your preliminary research may prompt you to look up information on particular people. In these cases, consult _______ sources, which can be classified in several ways: by person (living or dead), geography, subject area, gender, race, or historical period.

You may want to consult sources with _______ and demographics.

One useful source is ________. This site is the federal government's homepage, but it has a search engine that searches government information at the federal, state, and local level in the United States.

If your professor or a ________ source directs you to an important recent book on your topic, skim the introductory (and possibly concluding) material, along with the table of contents, for an overview of key issues.

Once you have completed ________ research, your objective becomes learning as much as you can about your topic so that you can provide the best possible answer to your research question.

Sources for focused research often fall into two broad categories, which are:

________ sources are original materials such as experiments, observations, surveys, interviews, diaries, first-person accounts, and so on.

________ sources are texts that analyze, synthesize, and/or collect other primary or secondary sources.

(Select all that apply.) All primary and secondary work appears in one of several different kinds of format. Some basic types of sources that you may encounter include:

___(1)_____, both popular and academic, are useful for providing both __(2)__ and depth of coverage of a subject.

Because they are generally published at least a year or two after the events treated, books also tend to provide the critical distance that is sometimes missing from ___(1)___. Conversely, this delay in coverage means that it won't be as __(2)___ as the information in periodicals.

One way to determine the reliability and ___(1)____ of a book you may want to use is to look up the __(2)_____ published in resources such as Publisher's Weekly or Library Journal.

Some professors expect at least some of your research to be based on articles in ___(1)____ sources called scholarly or academic __(2)____.

Because many more newspaper and magazine articles than books are published every year, you are likely, depending on the subject, to find more information in _______ than in books.

________ magazines such as the Atlantic, the New Republic, and the Nation are intended for nonspecialists. They usually don't provide citations or other indications of sources, so they're of limited usefulness for scholarly research.

Journal articles are often broken down into specific pieces, which include:

The ________ is a basic summary of the article that appears right at the beginning. It explains the major points.

The _____ provides context for what the authors want to do, and often includes a review of other work that has been done on this topic in the past.

The _______ section describes what the authors plan to do to investigate their topic. This could be an experiment, thorough research into others' work, interviews, or something else.

The _______ section is a report on what happened when the authors investigated their topic.

The ________ section describes what the authors think their results mean. This is usually the most important section in the article.

The ______ list includes documentation for all of the other works used to help the authors write the article.

To begin evaluating a source, you should _____ the source.

Next, be alert for _______, particularly to sources that several authors treat as important.

Recent or ________ sources usually incorporate or refer to important earlier work.

If you're considering making multiple references to a book, you should check the author's ______ in a source such as Contemporary Authors or Current Biography Illustrated.

When evaluating credibility, you should think like...

(Select all that apply.) Websites generally fall into one of several categories, each with a different purpose:

The _____ of a website--to sell, persuade, entertain--has a direct bearing on the objectivity and reliability of the information presented.

(Select all that apply.) When evaluating a site to determine credibility, apply these criteria (which are similar for print sources):

(Select all that apply.) Mining sources involves three important tasks:

One of the major factors impacting students' likelihood of plagiarizing is time ________. To avoid this, students can consider strategies like working on the assignment for a set amount of time each day.

When you explain the situation to your instructor ________ the paper is due, you will be able to resolve the situation promptly.

Inaccurate _______ can sometimes result in inadvertent plagiarism.

Digital copying and ______ is considered plagiarism.

Determining ______ knowledge when citing sources can be tricky.

If the idea or information you intend to use can be found unattributed (that is, not credited to a specific author) in ______ or more sources, then you can consider that material common knowledge.

Remember: If you quote a source, even if the material could be considered common knowledge, you must... (Select all that apply.)

Online paper _____ merit special attention because they make available prewritten papers on almost any topic. Remember that instructors know how to use search engines to find the same papers and identify cases of plagiarism.

U.S. copyright law permits ______ of copyrighted materials—including print (paper- and digital-based), images, video, and sound—for academic purposes. As long as you fully credit your sources, you may quote "excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; [and] ... short passages in a scholarly or technical work."

The key to fair use of any material relies on the extent to which you have __________ the original work for your purposes.

It is _______ for a student to copy a song from a CD and place it on a peer-to-peer sharing network.

It is _____ to "transform" a song from a CD by including it as the background track to a digital movie or podcast that includes other media by the student as long as it is created for educational purposes and cited on a bibliography page.