If you perform this type of test, you evaluate sources for credibility, reliable publication, unbiased discussion, current and accurate information, full, logical support, and quality writing and design
What is reliability?
100
These serve as the foundation for your research writing and allow you to work efficiently, get key information from sources, think critically, and record appropriate summaries, paraphrases, and quotations
What are notes?
100
Using someone else's words, ideas, or images so that they appear to be your own
What is plagiarism?
100
This refers to a source that does not push an agenda in an unfair, unbalanced, and incomplete manner
What is unbiased?
100
This organizational pattern groups details based on common traits or qualities
What is classification?
200
Information sources that priovide general and specialized information, are carefully researched, reviewed, and edited, but lack depth for focused research
What are reference works and textbooks?
200
This note taking method involves working with photocopies, print versions, or digitals texts and marking up the copy
What is copy (or save) and annotate?
200
Putting quotations into your paper by failing to both introduce them to the reader and provide a follow-up, resulting in choppy, disconnected writing
What is plunking?
200
This refers to whether a source can give you what you need and whether the discussion on the topic is up to date
What is currency?
200
This organizational pattern arranges items from most to least or least to most important
What is order of importance?
300
Present information at least once removed from the original
What are secondary sources?
300
This note taking system is the traditional method and involves two sets of cards, one for bibliographic information and one for specific notes on sources
What is paper or electronic note cards?
300
This takes information from the source word-for-word and should be used only for statements that are well phrased and authoritative
What is quotation?
300
This refers to evaluating a source for factual errors, statistical flaws, and conclusions that don't add up
What is accuracy?
300
This organizational patter clarifies how something works by breaking the object into parts or phases and showing how they work together
What is explanation?
400
Original sources that give firsthand information on a topic
What are primary sources?
400
This note taking method involves two columns, one documenting bibliographic information and one documenting responses
What is the double-entry notebook?
400
This condenses in your own words the main points of a passage and should be used for sources that provide relevant ideas and information on your topic
What is summarize?
400
This considers where teh source was published and how the source was located
What is reliability?
400
This organizational pattern shows similarities and differences between two subjects
What is comparison-contrast?
500
The most authoritative source of information, these information resources are largely based on careful research, written by experts for experts, address topics in depth, and involve peer review and careful editing
What are scholarly books and articles?
500
This note taking method establishes a central location for notes and involves taking notes one source at a time, numbering pages, and correlating notes pages with the topic outline
What is the computer notebook or research log?
500
This puts a whole passage in your own words, and should be used for passages that present key points, explanations, or arguments that are useful to your project
What is paraphrase?
500
This factor measures whether an author is an expert on the topic, has appropriate credentials, and whether those credentials can be confirmed
What is credibility?
500
This organizational pattern asserts and supports a claim, counters opposition, and reasserts the claim