Vocabulary
Collect and Synthesize
Research and Making Sense of Information
Key Word Search
Plagiarism
100
Real, true, the genuine item
What is authenticity?
100
If I wanted to know information about heart disease, I would probably use this resource.
What is an encyclopedia?
100
I am interested in improving my baseball game. If I have a little league blog, a wiki article, a book written by a former major league pro, and a website for coaching, I would choose this one as my most reliable source.
Who is a professional baseball player?
100
If I ask the question, "What is the best way to train for an upcoming marathon that I will be participating?" I only need these two key words.
What are "train" and "marathon"?
100
If one credits all sources, then they will not be accused of this.
What is plagiarism?
200
Claiming someone else's work as your own
What is plagiarism?
200
I have an atlas, an encyclopedia, a thesaurus, and an almanac. I need to research the capital of Russia. I will not use this one.
What is a thesaurus?
200
If one had to choose between interviews, a sport's magazine, store ads, and a fictional book, this would resource would help someone with a research report about phobias.
What is an interview?
200
I only need to use these key words if I were looking for information on how many teeth an adult dog should have.
What are "adult", "dog", and "teeth".
200
a regularly updated website or web page, typically one run by an individual or small group, that is written in an informal or conversational style
What is a blog?
300
To combine smaller items into a larger one
What is synthesize (or synthesis)?
300
If I wanted to write a book on "how to survive middle school," and I had these three resources, this one would be the best choice: a video of how to decorate a locker, a blog on style, or a book titled "21st Century Teens"
What is "21st Century Teens?"
300
Between blogs describing the oldest, new designs, the most popular, and phobias, I would use this to find out what is considered to be the world's best roller coaster.
What is "the most popular?"
300
If I want to find information about the best mechanics in [our town of] Martinsville, this word would be the least important in the word search. Martinsville, Virginia, information, best, and mechanics
What is "information?"
300
These are books about a person's life written by that person
What are autobiographies?
400
The most important words related to a subject.
What are "keywords?"
400
If someone was interested in the requirements for becoming a private detective, then which resource would be best between a pamphlet from a private detective agency, a fictional spy book, or a book written by an ex-television star who played a famous detective?
What is a pamphlet from a private detective agency?
400
True or false: Wikipedia is an acceptable source so long as the article is properly cited with research you could double-check.
What is true.
400
If I'm getting ready to research gardening, then I do NOT need these key words from the list. Planting, season, soil, seeds, forrest, temperature, soil, fire, seeds
What are "forrest" and "fire?"
400
The definition of genre
What is the term we use for categories/styles/types of reading and writing?
500
It is used to answer questions and/or complete research
What is a source?
500
Between a Google search for amusement parks, a flyer describing Russia's first amusement park, and an article describing amusement parks and the changes affecting them over the past decade, this would be the best source to use if one was researching the history of amusement parks in the United States.
What is an article describing amusement parks and the changes affecting them over the past decade?
500
Between a book titled "The Life of a Student in 1900," a 2016 catalogue of technology in schools, and a blueprint for a new school learning center, this one would probably be the LEAST useful when describing the life of a typical student in today's world.
What is a book titled "The Life of a Student in 1900?"
500
a change that's brought about
What is "effect?"
500
When an author references another work in his own with the expectation that the reader will know the work as it is common to the culture and era.
What is an allusion?