Searching the Web
This top search engine is helpful for real life questions, but less helpful for targeted academic research.
This is what it’s called when you copy an author’s sentences and claim they are your own.
Plagiarism
Found at the back of a book, this is a list of words and the page numbers they can be found on in the book.
Index
This is the job title of the person at a library who can help you find books about your research topic.
Librarian
This is the order that an author’s name should be cited.
Last, First
This crowd-sourced online encyclopedia is good for quick information, but hard to verify for academic research.
Wikipedia
Writing a note in a complete one of these risks plagiarizing the source author’s voice.
Sentence
This text feature is often at the beginning of a book with topic headings and page numbers.
Table of Contents
Use this app to search online for books on the shelves of our school library.
Destiny
While the title of a book is underlined or italicized, this kind of marking is used for the title of an article.
“Quotation Marks”
This is a searchable collection of expert-reviewed articles made for students doing academic research.
Database
This is highly recommended to do with your source after reading a section and before writing a note about it.
Set it aside
Found at the end of a book, this section lists important words and their definitions.
Glossary
This is the alliterative name of the number system used to organize nonfiction books in a library.
Dewey Decimal
This is the final piece of information needed to cite a book, listed right after the name of the publisher. (For elementary students)
Date published