What is it called when someone puts off an assignment they perceive as difficult, often making the assignment more difficult, creating stress for the person and resulting in a lower grade?
100
Call number
What is the number on the spine of a book usually containing letters and numbers that helps you find a book in the library?
100
Search Engine
What is the name of a tool you can use to search the web such as Google, Bing or All the Web?
100
Works Cited or Bibliography
What is the name of the page in your research paper where you credit all the sources you used?
100
Outline
What is the phase of your paper where you organize all of your research into developed format to help you begin the writing of your paper?
200
Research Plan
What is it called when someone plans ahead to stay on top of all the steps for their research paper thus resulting in a better paper and probably a better grade; not to mention you will learn a lot more too?
200
Database
What is the name of a collection of reliable information that students can use for research?
200
Domain Name
What is the part of the URL that gives you a clue as to the origin of a website?
200
MLA, APA
What is the name of two different styles of citing your resources?
200
Parenthetical Citations
What is the indicator you put in your paper to let the reader know you are citing another person's ideas and that the source has been recorded in your Works Cited?
300
Preliminary Research
What is the first step in a research paper?
300
Scholary/Academic Journals
What is the name of a specific type of magazine that is peer reviewed and academic in nature, often containing the latest research?
300
Purpose, Usefulness, Copyright, Author (PUCA)
What is a format you can use to evaluate a website and make sure it is reliable and worthy to use in your research?
300
Plagarism
What is it called when you use another person's ideas and do not give them credit with a citation?
300
Introduction
What is the first paragraph of your paper called where you introduce your thesis statement?
400
Broad Topic
What is a topic that needs to be "narrowed" because there would be too much information and organizing the research would drive you crazy?
400
Reference librarian
What is the title of the person you can talk to if you need help with your research paper?
400
Subject Directory
What is the name of a directory you use to search the web that is organized by subjects such as "Librarians Index to the Internet"?
400
Summarizing and Paraphrasing
What is it called when you put another person's ideas in your own words but you still have to cite the information as their work?
400
Conclusion
What is the last paragraph of your research paper that concludes all the information you have presented in your paper and restates the thesis statement in a new way?
500
Wikipedia
What is a good place to start your preliminary research but never to use as reliable source?
500
Boolean Search
What is searching called when you use the limiters "and, or, not"to broaden and narrow your search?
500
Google Scholar
What is the name of a specialized search engine that searches only scholarly sources on the web?
500
Common Knowledge
What is information that you do not have to cite because most everyone knows it?
500
College Library Website
What page of your college's website will give you all the information you need to complete a research paper?