APA-Style
TRUE or FALSE: When citing a web source within your paper, you should include part of the URL and the date.
What is FALSE. You should include the (author's last name year).
An important step in the pre-writing process, this step involves organizing your thoughts and working towards identifying a claim.
What is brainstorming?
TRUE or FALSE: When citing a source of information, it is helpful to remember the phrase "Punc-Par-Quo".
What is FALSE, "Quo-Par-Punc"
TRUE or FALSE: "Sponsored links" are often a good place to find information for a research paper.
What is False; they are paid advertisements are typically contain useless information and bias.
Identify four types of print (not web) sources:
What are books textbooks academic and trade journals government reports legal documents magazines newspapers pamphlets etc...
This is restating another author's words or ideas, as opposed to using them directly.
What is paraphrasing.
This stage of the writing process involves critically reviewing your work or the work or peers.
What is editing or revising
This method of citing information involves directly using the words or ideas of another within your research paper.
What is quoting?
This is the proper name for terms entered into a search engine or database search.
What are keywords?
Identify three types of web (not print) sources:
What are websites databases web logs multimedia discussion boards social media posts
What does APA stand for?
What is the American Psychological Association?
Guided by your outline, this stage involves compiling your thoughts into cohesive sentences and paragraphs and developing a logically-ordered paper.
What is a rough draft or first draft
This is the name of the page within the research paper that credits all sources reviewed (not necessarily used!) by the author
What is a bibliography page?
Is information found on the internet considered a primary source or secondary source?
What is a secondary source?
Google, Yahoo, Bing, and SweetSearch are considered examples of these.
What is a search engine?
This is the difference between in-text citation, internal attribution, and parenthetical citation.
Placement of the citation in relation to the text.
This stage of the writing process involves initially organizing your ideas on paper in a cohesive way.
What is outlining?
This is the abbreviation used within a parenthetical citation when the date of a piece cannot be found.
What is n.d.?
Name at least two things to be mindful of when evaluating an online source.
What is bias, author qualifications, reliability, and date?
Why are most websites (including Wikipedia!) typically unacceptable sources for citing in a scholarly research paper?
What is they have not been "peer-reviewed"; as such, anyone is free to contribute to the website.
This is the last page of a scholarly research paper, on which an author credits sources used in-depth.
What is a Works Cited page
This is a list of symbols most commonly used when revising rough drafts.
What are editor's marks?
This information is widely known, can readily be found on at least 5 other sources, and therefore does not need to be cited within your research paper.
What is common knowledge?
AND, OR, NEAR, and NOT (in all caps), terms that help search engine users conduct more focused research.
What are Boolean Operators?
Per their website, this database searching tool provides, "fee-based online research service with 375 full-text databases, a collection of 380,000-plus ebooks, subject indexes, point-of-care medical references, and an array of historical digital archives.
What is EBSCOHost?