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An article or other informational work written by an expert and reviewed anonymously by other experts in the field to ensure the work’s overall quality, including its validity.
What are Peer-reviewed articles or sources?
What a good research question is
What is debatable, open-ended, specific, or addressing a gap?
This is one type of General Reference Works
What is an almanac, atlas, dictionary, or encyclopedia?
Detailed examination of a complex topic, often looking at individual parts, to interpret meanings, themes, and author choices.
What is analysis?
CRAAP stands for
What is Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, & Purpose
These are organized collections of information
What is a database?
These are two aspects of the research process
What are Interest, Questions, Answers, Field Research, Examination of Texts, Evaluation of Sources, Writing, Testing and Experimentation, Synthesis, Presentation
Build a parenthetical citation for an article published by Lisa James, Lewis Drip, Shirley Dent, and Mary Olive.
(James et al.)
What are at least two mechanisms for communication within one of your discourse communities?
Answers vary
These are two types of research
What are Primary and Secondary?
Your "needs" as a writer
What are Basic Facts/Data/Information
or
What are Critical/Conceptual/Contextual Sources?
Build a citation for chapter 13.2 from your textbook
MLA, Chicago, or APA
What an Annotated Bibliography provides these
What are a full citation, summary, evaluation, authority, and reflection?
Identify the thesis statement in the following paragraph from Ch. 8.4:
"With more than 83 million cases and 1.8 million deaths at the end of 2020, COVID-19 has turned the world upside down. By the end of 2020, the United States led the world in the number of cases, at more than 20 million infections and nearly 350,000 deaths. In comparison, the second-highest number of cases was in India, which at the end of 2020 had less than half the number of COVID-19 cases despite having a population four times greater than the U.S. (“COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic,” 2021). How did the United States come to have the world’s worst record in this pandemic? An examination of the U.S. response shows that a reduction of experts in key positions and programs, inaction that led to equipment shortages, and inconsistent policies were three major causes of the spread of the virus and the resulting deaths."
What is:
An examination of the U.S. response shows that a reduction of experts in key positions and programs, inaction that led to equipment shortages, and inconsistent policies were three major causes of the spread of the virus and the resulting deaths.
By combining information from various sources, researchers support claims or arrive at new conclusions.
What is Synthesis?
Your reader's "needs"
What is a Reason to Invest, Proof That It Matters, and Examples and Explanation?
This is a descriptive summary
What is an abstract?
Find a Full-length book published by an Oklahoma State University Professor.
Post the author and title to the Jeopardy Discussion board
Can be fiction, nonfiction, or poetry
This is the Oklahoma State University professor Lily Tran cites in her Annotated Bibliography (ch 14.3)
Who is F. Bailey Norwood? They are an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Oklahoma State University.
Find an article published by an OSU Professor.
Post the author, title, and subject, along with a link to the article on the Jeopardy discussion board
Hopefully, using experts.okstate.edu
Revise the following research question:
Is it possible to stop homelessness?
Revisions should make the question more specific, open-ended, researchable, less reliant on an opinion answer.
This type of source provides background information or other relevant facts
What is a contextualizing source?
These are citation styles
What are APA, MLA, Chicago, and Turabian?
The 6 features of a discourse community
What are:
1. A broadly agreed upon set of common public goals
2. Mechanisms of intercommunication among members
3. Use of these communication mechanisms to provide information and feedback
4. One or more genres that help further the goals of the discourse community
5. A specific lexis (specialized language)
6. A threshold level of expert members