The Author
Research for Dummies
Crimes Against the Author (Plagiarism)
Organizing Schmorganizng
Just for Fun
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This is the term for an author's sources that are first-hand original information, like letters, diaries or eye witness accounts
What are primary sources?
100
This is the term for the people that an author expects to read or view his or her product.
What is audience?
100
This is a serious crime and is punishable by recieving zero's on assignment and/or behavior referrals in high school.
What is plagiarism?
100
If I organized my paper from most important to least important detail, if would be this kind of organizational pattern.
What is order of importance?
100
These THREE movies are all nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture.
What is Beasts of the Southern Wild, Argo, Lincoln, Zero Dark 30, Silver Linings Playbook, Life of Pi.
200
This is the term for a sources that are commentaries on primary sources.
What are secondary sources?
200
This is the subject of a research product.
What is the topic?
200
This is the type of format that we use at Mt. Vernon HS to cite sources.
What is MLA Format?
200
This organization pattern shows the outcome, and what caused it.
What is cause-and-effect?
200
This rap group named an album for Chinua Achebe's book "Things Fall Apart."
What is The Roots?
300
A scientist's report on the number of Burmese pythons living in the Florida Everglades would be this kind of source.
What is a primary source?
300
"Role of women Ibo culture" is an example of this.
What is a search term?
300
This is the term for taking someone else's writing and condensing or shortening it to its most essential points.
What is summarizing?
300
This organizational pattern shows similarities and differences between two things.
What is compare and contrast?
300
This is Mrs. Garr's favorite author.
Who is Margaret Atwood?
400
An eyewitness account of a burglary would be this kind of source.
What is a primary source?
400
A report on why logging is good, written by the logging industry, would be considered this.
What is biased?
400
This is the term for when a writer restates another person's writing in his or her own words.
What is paraphrasing?
400
A paper titled "The Rise and Fall of the USSR: Soviet Russia from 1900-1990" would most likely use this organizational technique.
What is chronological?
400
This is Mr. Mallon/Ms. Bea's favorite movie.
What is ????
500
A newspaper article about the rise of violent crime would be this kind of source.
What is a secondary source?
500
You would expect that senior researchers at prestigious colleges would produce research products that are ________ and free of errors.
What is accurate?
500
Quotation marks are used to show this.
What is a direct quotation?
500
A paper titled "Salmon: Why This Endangered Species is Crucial to Northwest Ecosystems" most likely uses this organizational pattern.
What is enumeration/listing OR explanation?
500
This is the number of students that get picked for a lottery prize every other Friday.
What is 10?
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