Using someone else’s original work without acknowledging the original creator.
What is Plagiarism?
100
Words in a tweet that the author identifies by typing the pound sign operator before the word to create categories that others can search for.
What is a hashtag?
100
A brief (usually 500 words) synopsis of the article.
What is an Abstract?
100
Compares data by varying the length of the columns or bars.
What is a Bar Chart?
100
The invisible area of the web where the vast majority of information (99.8%) is stored.
What is the Deep Web?
200
Large gateways that create access to different segments of government information.
What are Portals?
200
Words such as a, an and the, which do not qualify as keywords.
What are Stop Words?
200
Provides a brief overview of the relevant studies or articles that support or provide background information on the current study.
What is a Literature Review?
200
Shows the contribution of each value to a total, allowing the reader to understand the relationship of parts to the whole.
What is a Pie Chart?
200
Enables you to locate web pages that contain keywords you enter in a search form.
What is a Search Engine?
300
The operator that the engine automatically uses (usually AND)
What is a Default Operator?
300
Is accomplished by putting quotation marks (“ “) around the words you want to appear together in your results.
What is Phrase Searching?
300
Explains why the authors have conducted the study or written the article and why the information is important.
What is the Introduction?
300
Displays trends and their magnitude over time; the area below the line is filled in.
What is an Area Chart?
300
The nouns and verbs, and sometimes important adjectives, which describe the major concepts of your search.
What are Keywords?
400
Drawings that visually represent searches using Boolean operators.
What are Venn Diagrams?
400
Protects other forms of intellectual property, such as literary works, artwork, music, audio and visual productions, photographs and newspaper articles.
What is Copyright?
400
Explains the major inferences that can be drawn logically from the study and outlines why the findings are important to the industry or the general population.
What are the Conclusions?
400
Displays a trend over time; typically, time is represented on the X axis of the graph and the element being measured over time is represented on the Y axis.
What is a Line Chart?
400
A program which crawls or scans the web to index the keywords on web pages.
What is a Spider?
500
Refers to anything created by the mind, such as literary works, artwork, inventions, ideas, logos or symbols, names, designs and images or photographs.
What is Intellectual Property?
500
Refers to intellectual property created in the line of conducting business or for business purposes, such as inventions, trademarks, and industrial and business designs.
What is Industrial Property?
500
Explains in detail how the current study was conducted.
What are Methods?
500
Compares pairs of values under the same situations.
What is a Scatter Chart?
500
Offers a single search form to query multiple search engines simultaneously.