Information Sources
An information source created by an authoritative, professional in that subject area.
What is a scholarly resource?
A question that you pose when identifying the information you need to find.
What is a research question?
The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
What is plagiarism?
A reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work.
What is a citation?
What is Artificial Intelligence?
An information resource reviewed by another professional in that subject area.
What is a peer-reviewed resource?
Pieces of information collected during a research study.
What is data?
A commonly used type of license for online and/or open education resources.
What is Creative Commons?
When you take another person's words and place them in your own document without changing them.
What is a direct quotation?
The main library search box on the MVC library's homepage.
What is OneSearch?
Website domains that are more likely to be scholarly.
What are .edu and .gov websites?
What is a keyword?
Ownership that every author or creator has as soon as they create something.
What is copyright?
When you express the meaning and/or information of another source using your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
Simple words used as conjunctions to combine or exclude keywords in a database search.
What are Boolean Operators?
Sources like Wikipedia, encyclopedias, and some books can be used to find this type of information to understand a topic.
What is background information?
How well or accurately the results of a study represent the real world or larger populations
What is validity?
Allowable copying of copyrighted material done for a limited and “transformative” purpose, such as education or parody.
What is Fair Use?
The citation and paper formatting style used in most English and language courses.
What is MLA (Modern Language Association)?
A website for instantly creating references and bibliographies for any text editor.
What is Zotero or Endnote?
Collections of scholarly articles, ebooks, and other resources that students can access for free.
What are library databases?
A set of strategies, techniques and assumptions used to explore numeric patterns or using numeric data.
What is quantitative research?
The state of belonging or being available to the public as a whole, and therefore not subject to copyright.
What is Public Domain?
A website with examples and rules for citation formats such as MLA, APA, and more.
What is OWL.excelsior.edu?
A program used by teachers to check for plagiarism.
What is TurnItIn?