Identify
This is a used to help create new ideas about your topic.
What is brainstorming?
Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc.
What is a search engine?
True or False: You should verify that the information on the Internet is timely, new, and fresh.
True
You must do this whenever you quote or paraphrase the work of another.
What is cite your sources?
Who teaches Luke Skywalker to use the force?
Yoda
After you come up with main keywords you should also come up with these.
What are synonyms?
True or False: You should type the whole research question into Google
False
True or False: Making sure information on the Internet is correct and verified by other sources is not important
False
True or False. Works Cited page is not necessary for topics you already know about.
False.
Which football team has a cannon on its logo?
Arsenal
You should come up with at least three of these before you start searching.
What are keywords?
A free source of electronic databases and journal articals.
What is Google scholar?
What is relevance?
Making sure that the information you find matches your information needed.
Researchers prefer scholarly articles that have undergone this process.
What is peer reviewed?
Which group has the most no.1 hit songs in history?
The Beatles
Before starting your research you should come up with 3-5 of these
What are focused research questions?
Not a good source for scholarly research, though it may point to other scholarly resources.
What is Wikipedia?
What is bias?
Information contains opinion and is not just factual
When information is brought together from different sources this is known as.
What is synthesizing?
Which teacher is from Northern Ireland?
Ms. Rebekah
You use this to keep organized and leave a paper trail of your research.
What is a bibliography?
These scholarly publications are available in print and through electronic databases.
What are journals?
What is the first thing to look for when deciding if a source is scholarly.
What is a reference list?
This is a summary that includes strengths and weaknesses and information about the author.
Author Biography
Which Marvel character created their own world in order to live their dream life?
The Scarlet Witch