Research
APA
Organizing Information
Take aways
Misc
100
This type of information does not need to be cited in a research paper.
What is common knowledge?
100
The purpose of citations.
What is to give credit to others for their ideas and to allow your reader to follow up and learn more about the topic if desired?
100
Introduction, body, and conclusion.
What is the structure of the paper?
100
When writing your research paper you should always back up research with a ______?
What is reference page
100
This means to concisely restate in one's own words the main ideas from a source.
What is to summarize?
200
Sources that comment on primary sources or reprint information first published elsewhere.
What are secondary sources?
200
This occurs when you document sources within the body of your paper.
What is in-text citation?
200
It includes the main points of the paper and clearly states the thesis statement.
What is the introductory paragraph?
200
A tool provided in the UOP library to help create proper APA references.
What is the reference and citation generator?
200
It means to restate ideas or information from sources using one's own words and sentence structures.
What is to paraphrase?
300
Original documents such as letters, texts of speeches, firsthand reports, government resolutions, works of diaries, etc., are examples of these
What are primary sources?
300
Two disciplines that use APA.
What is APA (American Psychological Association) for education, psychology, and the social sciences.
300
A paragraph will often begin with this sentence.
What is a topic sentence?
300
Shows order, structure, and relationship between primary and secondary topics.
What is outline?
300
This is the definition of plagiarism.
What is presenting someone else's work or ideas as your own ideas?
400
This is done after writing the rough draft, but before the writing the final copy.
What is editing?
400
Times New Roman or Arial, in a legible size (10- to 12-point).
What is the font requirements of the paper?
400
Author’s last name, year of publication, and page number of the quote
What three pieces of information are a MUST when citing a direct quote?
400
University of Phoenix formatting choice for papers.
What is APA?
400
This is a summary that will generally appear at the beginning of a scholarly article, such as one you might find in a database.
What is an abstract?
500
Choose a topic, plan and schedule a time to research, conduct research, organize research and ideas, draft paper, revise paper.
What are steps to the research writing process?
500
Using et. al.
What is What is citing 6 authors or more?
500
Online databases, websites maintained by businesses, universities, nonprofit organizations, or government agencies, newspapers, magazines, and journals published on the web,E-books
What are reliable sources to use for research?
500
The last paragraph of a paper summarizing the main points covered in the paper.
What is the conclusion?
500
Relevant, recent, representative, reliable
What are the 4 R's to evaluating sources?