Secondary Source Research
This is a research tool used to compile and evaluate secondary sources.
What is an Annotated Bibliography?
This research methodology uses data, statistics, and numeric representation to evaluate groups.
What is quantitative research?
This style of writing/speaking distances the verb from the subject. Ex: "The bone was chewed" instead of "The dog chewed the bone."
What is passive voice?
When something isn't concretely, independently real, but people make it real by believing in it or assigning value to it.
What is a construct or social construct?
Gus's most widely used nickname.
Who is "Gusseroni and Cheese"
Our university subscribes to these through our library to get sources into your (digital) hands.
What is a database?
This paper style is used in lab reports, social science research, sociology, nursing, child and family studies, and various other science-based disciplines.
What is IMRaD format?
An example of this would be using Chat GPT, improperly citing a source, or patchwriting.
What is plagiarism?
The period after the civil war, which was overseen by a southern democrat and ended with the Compromise of 1877.
What is reconstruction?
A Holland Lop.
What is Skeeter Dee's rabbit breed?
When three professionals in a discipline review a new work for its strengths and flaws, and decide whether or not it should be revised or published, it's called _____.
Peer Review
This paragraph is written by an author to summarize their research paper's purpose, exigence, methods, and findings.
What is the abstract?
This line on a document usually includes your last name and the page number, but sometimes might include an abbreviated title of your paper in all caps.
What is a document header?
In 1982, Dolly Parton starred in this movie alongside her love interest, Burt Reynolds. One notable song from this film is "I Will Always Love You"
What is The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas?
Tulane University
Where did Instructor Bryan get her Masters?
The ________ Language Association decides the style and reference guidelines that most disciplines in the humanities follow.
What is the MODERN Language Association?
This type of interview is typically done round-robin style with several participants who participate at once. It is often used in marketing and market research.
What is a focus group?
A good paragraph might first lay out its main point, followed by evidence, then teased out with analysis, and concluded with a synthesis of the point and the paper's thesis.
What are PEAS paragraphs?
In response to disparagement from the literary elite, several young men from Vanderbilt University came together to develop this philosophy of the South.
What was Agrarianism?
"Free Bird"
What is the song by Lynyrd Skynyrd that inspired Instructor Bryan to publish an article in The Bitter Southerner?
This is a collection of academic articles compiled by an editor and published by an institution.
This type of reasoning occurs when you know something from reasoning alone, independent of current experience. In coding, this reasoning occurs when you bring knowledge and reason to the codes.
What is A priori reasoning?
This punctuation mark was heavily used by Emily Dickenson and oftentimes fixes sentences with comma splices.
What is an em dash?
The "Confederate Flag" flown today was never actually the flag of the Confederacy. When we see people flying what's known today as the Confederate Flag, what are they actually flying?
What is the Confederate Battle Flag of Northern Virginia (which looked very similar to the army of Southern Tennessee)?
Construction and Roaches
Why can we not meet in Instructor Bryan's on campus office?