Research Strategies
Depending on what your writing about, this could be an issue of using old sources for a current topic.
The information may be out of date!
As it relates to academic writing, we said these are basically the gold standard of sources.
What are scholarly/peer-reviewed/academic journals?
What is synthesis?
One of the most (in)famous internet challenges, this came to prominence in 2018 due to it daring people to eat pouches of laundry detergent
What was the Tide-pod Challenge?
TRUE OR FALSE: The *world* experiences summer in the months of June/July/August.
False, it depends on what hemisphere you're in! The Southern hemisphere has its summer in December/January/February
I told you to try and use CSU research resources over things like Google Scholar in order to avoid these.
What are paywalls?
What is an abstract?
TRUE OR FALSE: You should be citing things throughout your entire paper, including intros and conclusions.
False! There are parts where you won't be introducing new information, such as a conclusion.
One of the first viral "challenges", this consisted of eating a spoonful of a certain spice in under 60 seconds.
What was the cinnamon challenge?
This is the summer day that has the most daylight/shortest night.
(Note, I'll accept either the name for this day or the actual date itself)
What is the Summer Solstice, a.k.a June 20-21?
This is the name of the CSU library database that I recomended
What is Academic Search Complete?
When we say academic journals aren't written for a popular audience, it is because they contain these elements.
What is technical language, jargon, dense material, some assumed background knowledge, etc?
First going viral in 2021, this trend consisted of high schoolers stealing/vandalizing things in their schools.
What were "devious licks"?
This ominously named National Park is generally thought of as the hottest place on Earth, with a peak recorded ambient temperature of 134 degrees Fahrenheit!
What is Death Valley?
You generally can't cite tertiary sources (e.g. encyclopedic sources like Wikipedia), but they can be great resources for this reason.
How to use the References/Works Cited page of a tertiary source?
Unless you are pretty familiar with the subject matter, this is the section of an academic article that is generally ok to skip.
What is a data/methodology section?
We assume the reader has _______ information about the topic, which is why we use the intro to provide ______.
What is "little to none" and "context/background information"?
Despite being pretty obviously fake, this strange "trend" of cooking chicken in cough medicine had gone viral enough to draw out comments from the FDA.
What was Nyquil Chicken?
This kind of astronomical movement is what causes seasons.
What is axial tilt?
We mentioned this very briefly, but this is the name of heightened search engine parameters like AND, OR, NOT
What is a Boolean operator?
We said there are three main characteristics of scholarly sources. Below, what are the two missing elements?
1. They are written by subject matter experts
2. ?
3. ?
They are peer reviewed and published in scholarly journals.
This is the general reason of why we wait to write an intro/conclusion until after we finish the body paragraphs.
This conspiracy theory argues that for about 10 years, the internet primarily (but not wholly) consists of bot activity and automated content, with very little actual human engagement.
What is the "dead internet theory"?
Despite the 4th of July celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the colonies' actual legal independence from Britain was confirmed via the Lee Resolution on this earlier date.
What is July 2nd?