Reliable and Credible Sources
What does ".com" stand for?
What is "commercial"?
What can happen if you're caught plagiarizing?
What is, you get a 0 and a detention?
The author's position or opinion about a certain topic.
What is a claim?
A person, place, thing, or ideas.
What is a noun?
"My pencil danced across the page as I finished my story" is an example of?
What is personification?
This website is not considered a reliable website.
What is Wikipedia?
Using or imitating another person's words or ideas as your own without giving them credit.
What is plagiarism?
A more specific type of support.
What is evidence?
Uses like or as to compare two things.
What is simile?
What part of speech is the italicized word? "She quickly ran to the store for some candy."
What is an adverb?
What does ".edu" stand for?
What is education?
A source by someone who does not have firsthand experience of the even.
What is a secondary source?
Strong arguments have clear reasoning with strong _________.
What is evidence?
An extreme exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
"It poured all night" is what type of sentence? (simple, compound, or complex)
What is simple?
Give an example of a domain suffix.
What are .com, .net, .edu, .gov, or .org?
A document by someone with firsthand experience of the event.
What is a primary source?
Give two examples of types of evidence.
What are facts, statistics, examples, observations, quotations, or expert opinions?
Directly compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
"They went to the store, but he wanted to go to the beach" is what type of sentence? (simple, compound, or complex)
What is compound?
A credible Internet site contains what information?
What is a bibliography?
A documentary film about the Arctic Circle directed by someone living in Australia.
What is a secondary source?
The points or opinions the writer gives to show why their claim should be accepted.
What are reasons?
"This test is a piece of cake" is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is an idiom?
Write the possessive noun for the following, "the fur of the sloth."
What is "the sloth's fur"?