This is the ability to consume and create credible information, and the ability to distinguish that good information from opinion, gossip, and propaganda.
What is Information Literacy?
100
When evaluating resources, looking at this means investigating how up-to-date the information is.
What is the Currency?
100
This is the address of a website.
What is a URL?
100
This allows you to tell the reader of your paper where you got your information from.
What is a citation?
100
This is a message that tries to change your beliefs by manipulating your feelings.
What is Propaganda?
200
This is a collection of organized information, like Itunes or the IMDB. You can use one of these to find different types of scholarly resources (articles, websites, and videos) for use in your assignments.
What is a Database?
200
This symbol, when found in a website’s URL, indicates that the site is a personal site.
What is the tilde? What is the ~? What is the squiggly symbol? (accept any)
200
This domain which appears at the end of a web address means that the page is government run.
What is .gov?
200
This is the action of using information you find in a book or article and not saying where it came from, or of copying someone else’s words without giving them proper credit.
What is Plagiarism?
200
This is when a speaker or writer intentionally or unintentionally leaves out parts of the story.
What is Bias?
300
This is the category of resources that are published on a continuous and predictable schedule. It includes academic journal articles, newspaper articles, and magazines.
What is a Periodical?
300
Investigating who sponsors a website or who published a source can tell you about a source's ______?
What is Objectivity?
300
This domain which appears at the end of a web address means that the page is run by a business, company, or corporation and was purchased.
What is .com or .biz?
300
This is the action of submitting someone else’s work under your own name.
What is cheating?
300
Looking at this when evaluating a resource means investigating if information is in line with other resources in the field, gives proper citations, contains spelling or grammar errors, and/or the information has been edited or reviewed by someone.
What is Accuracy?
400
This is a type of periodical that is intended for scholars and written by scholars who are experts in their field.
What is a Journal?
400
Looking at this _____ means paying attention to the author and his or her credentials as well as where the information is being published (particularly on the internet.)
What is Authority?
400
This domain which appears at the end of a web address means that the page belongs to an institution of public education, such as an elementary or high school.
What is .k12.us?
400
This is putting information into your own words.
What is Paraphrasing?
400
A reliable source will contain more ________ than opinions?
What are Facts.
500
This is the term for knowing where to look and who to ask to find out if you are getting the facts.
What is Media Literacy?
500
This person will always be willing to help you figure out if your sources are reliable or not.
Who is a Librarian?
500
This domain which appears at the end of a web address means that the page belongs to an institution of higher education.
What is .edu
500
This is what takes place when you paraphrase, but not enough for the information to pass as your original writing.
What is patch-writing?
500
Because anonymous sources are often unreliable, a reliable source will usually have this listed somewhere.
What is an author?
If you cannot find a record of an author, this is often a red flag that your source might not be reliable.