WorksheetsResearch and Planning
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
A reliable source is
Biased
Trying to sell you something
Trusted
An example of a reliable source is …
A print or an online encyclopedia
Google.com
Wikipedia.com
Yahoo.com
Steps you can take to determine if a source is reliable will include
Looking for the author
Verifying the author’s expertise
Determining the authors of the website
All of the above
What is a search engine?
A paid library website that gives reliable information
Searches the Internet and identifies items that match the characters and keywords entered by a user
A library online catalogue
A collection of full text articles used for research projects
How many types of research are there?
2
3
4
5
Which one of these points do you include in an introduction?
Final results
Evidence
Introduce topic areas in one or two sentences
What does a conclusion include?
Summarising your major points
Describing the topic
The positive and the negative points
What does WEED mean?
Weeds, ecology, environment, danger
What, example, evidence, do
Willow, elder, elm, dogwood
When, example, essay, develop
The introduction should be ??? of the overall word count
20%
80%
10%
25%
What is Research?
A creation of new/existing knowledge which generates new concepts and understandings
A collection of facts and/or information with no purpose
The reordering of facts without interpretation
