Effectively and Efficiently
This is the bias where individuals only seek out evidence that confirms their pre-existing beliefs.
What is confirmation bias?
What strategy helps prevent readers from being surprised by a quotation, similar to a driver encountering an armadillo?
What is introduce the quote with context and the author's name?
These sources provide direct evidence or firsthand accounts, such as interviews, original research, and historical documents.
What are primary sources?
A credible source should have this feature, indicating that it has been reviewed by experts in the field before publication.
What is peer review?
The literature review must include at least this many secondary sources, with at least one being scholarly.
What is four?
This type of reading involves checking the credibility of a source by examining multiple other sources.
What is lateral reading?
What technique can help ensure that a quotation flows smoothly within a sentence and matches the surrounding context, avoiding awkward surprises?
What is read your sentence aloud to check for grammatical consistency before a quotation?
This type of source interprets, analyzes, or summarizes primary sources
What are secondary sources?
This type of publication often features opinion pieces, commentary, or personal stories, and may not be suitable for academic research due to potential bias.
What is a magazine?
This required section of your essay reflects on your writing process, including how audience awareness and research impacted your final product.
What is the Writing Reflection?
The reading emphasizes the importance of this skill, which involves questioning the author's background, intent, and the reliability of their sources.
What is source evaluation?
To avoid sounding like Uncle Barry, writers should focus on balancing quotations with their own analysis. What should they do to improve the quality of their writing?
What is to return to each quotation and provide guidance or analysis around it?
This type of article is often published in academic journals and is written by experts in a specific field. It is typically peer reviewed
What is a scholarly article?
Often used for quick information and general knowledge, this online encyclopedia allows users to edit its content, raising concerns about its reliability in academic research.
What is Wikipedia?
This is the minimum number of sources you need to include in your Works Cited page, all corresponding to in-text citations.
What is six?
What term describes deliberately false or misleading information spread with the intention to deceive?
What is disinformation?
To ensure that citations are easy to find in the works cited section, what should writers remember to do?
What is to make sure the first word of the works cited entry matches the in-text citation?
Scholarly articles typically include this section, which summarizes the main findings and contributions of the research.
What is the abstract?
This feature of scholarly articles typically contains citations and references to other research, allowing readers to verify sources.
What is the bibliography or works cited section?
The main points discussed throughout your literature review should be summarized in this part of the introduction.
What is the thesis statement?
This tool can help identify the political leanings and biases of various news outlets.
What is the Interactive Media Bias chart?
To avoid confusion about the source of ideas in your writing, use this language in your lead-in sentences.
What is use specific words and phrases to indicate where the information originates?
Introduced in class by the librarian, this resource is known for providing credible primary sources and in-depth analysis on current issues.
What is CQ Researcher?
This is the main database offered by the library, providing access to a wide range of scholarly articles, newspapers, and other resources for research.
What is ProQuest Central?
This is when your literature review is due
What is November 13th?