This process includes 6 steps that are used to break down research, projects or tasks into manageable pieces.
What is the Big 6
100
The quality of being honest and responsible in the educational world.
What is academic integrity?
100
The vehicles used to communicate to mass audiences. Examples are newspapers, movies, radios, computers, televisions etc...
What is media?
100
Dogpile, Exelead, Yahoo, Alta Vista are all names these.
What are internet search engines?
100
To speak or write the words of others.
What is to quote?
200
This page comes at the end of your research project and includes citations to document where you found your information.
What is a works cited page or bibliography?
200
Some penalties for this crime include expulsion from a school or university, loss of scholarships and/or copyright infringement fines.
What is plagerism?
200
A medium and persuasive form of communication designed to create a psychological need in an individual for the purpose of selling or promoting a product.
What is advertising?
200
The tendency of a researcher to look for information that supports their opinion about a topic.
What is comfirmation bias or research bias?
200
This helps you organize information from multiple sources and can be coded to identify which source the information is from.
What are note cards?
300
To rework the ideas, words, phrases, and sentence structures of others and retell them in your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
300
A way to reference a source by giving immediate source information and authority without interrupting the flow of the project.
What is an in-text citation?
(Also know as parenthetical notation because the citation is in parentheses.)
300
The abilty to understand the role of media in society which involves quesitioning the symbols, attitudes, stereotypes, message and placement of all types of media.
What is media literacy?
300
A resource that is available 24 hrs a day as long as you have internet service is password protected and organized according to field of study.
What is an online database?
300
These facts are general, known by many, appear the same way in 5 or more resources and do not have to be documented.
What is common knowledge?
400
A reference to an author of a given work which can include name, title, page number, publishing information and date.
What is a citation
400
To combine the main ideas of one or several authors, using your own words, into a significantly shorter form. Sources used in these need to be documented.
What is to summarize?
400
A bias statement which gives an appearance of truth but actually obscures the underlying meaning of reality.
What is spin?
400
When you combing search terms with and/or/not you are using this language.
What is boolean?
400
Information spread with the intent of promoting a particular cause or idea.
What is propaganda?
500
An organization that provides guidelines for documenting, citing sources and formating a research paper. This stlye of documentation is usually used when doing research in topics related to humanities.
What is MLA (Modern Language Association)?
500
Organize time requirements and use good notetaking skills: plan due dates for completing steps of a research project.
What are ways to avoid plagerism?
500
An underlying message implied through the use of symbol, metaphor, characters, words, and special effects used in advertising.
What is subtext?
500
The acronym used to reference the research skill set used to evaluate websites for validity and authority.
What is RADCAB?
(Relevance, Appropriateness, Detail, Currency, Authority, Bias)
500
This step of the Big 6 asks that you judge both your final product and the process of creating it and decide how you feel you did and what you think your could do better.