Identify
This is a used to help create new ideas about your topic.
What is brainstorming?
Chrome, Yahoo, Bing, Safari, Firefox, etc.
What is a search engine?
Refers to how recent the information is.
What is Currency?
You must do this whenever you quote or paraphrase the work of another.
What is cite your sources?
This source is a periodical and, for the most part are not considered scholarly.
What are magazine articles?
After you come up with main keywords you should also come up with these.
What are synonyms?
These words make searching the internet a logical operation.
What are Boolean operators?
Making sure information on the Internet is correct and can be verified by other sources.
What is accuracy?
True or False. Work cited and annotated bibliographies are the same.
False.
This source is known to be outdated.
What is a book?
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 articles.
What is Google scholar?
Making sure that the information you find matches your information needed.
What is relevance?
Researchers prefer scholarly articles that have undergone this process.
What is peer reviewed?
What is the database package we are using at school called?
What is Ebsco host.
After writing your research question you should start doing this
Searching for broad information?
Not a good source for scholarly research, though it may point to other scholarly resources.
What is Wikipedia?
Making surer the information you find is intended is scholarly research and relatively free from bias.
What is purpose?
When information is brought together from different sources, this is known as.
What is synthesizing?
This source is a periodical written by experts in the particular field of study?
What are research journals?
You use this to keep organized and leave a paper trail of your research.
What is a research log?
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 peer-reviewed?
This is an alphabetized list of sources—books, articles, websites, etc.—directly cited, quoted, or paraphrased within an MLA-style research paper.
What is a works cited page?
A publication produced for the general public rather than for academic researchers, usually written by journalists or professionals rather than experts in a specific field.
What is non-scholarly?