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Reference Skills
Parts of a Book
Research Skills
Dewey
Genres
100
You could use this to find the definition of the word archaeologists.
What is a dictionary?
100
This names the title of the book. It also tells who wrote the book and who drew the pictures. It even tells the name of the company that published the book.
What is the Title Page?
100

This is what you must include with your research paper to give credit for the information you used.

What is the Works Cited or Bibliography page?

100
The section you would use to find books on ecology or volcanoes.
What is the 500's, or Natural Science section?
100
Stories that are made up from the imagination of the author and are not true.
What is Fiction?
200
You use this book to find a synonym for the word abandoned.
What is a thesaurus?
200
This lists all the chapters that are in the book. You can use this to find out what page each chapter begins on.
What is the Table of Contents?
200
This is first hand information, it could be a document, picture, or artifact, but it must have been created at the time the event happened.
What is a primary source?
200
The section you would use to find books on countries and their past. For example - American Civil War.
What is the 900's, or Geography and History?
200
Writing dealing with facts and events rather than the imagination.
What is Non-Fiction?
300
This is a set of books that gives information about many topics. The topics are listed in Alphabetical order.
What is an encyclopedia?
300
This is the page that gives the copyright date, which is the date that the book was published.
What is the copyright page?
300
A network of millions of computers from all over the world. This allows computers all over the world to trade information.
What is the Internet?
300
The section you would use to find books on Van Gogh or Kobe Bryant.
What is the 700's, or Arts & Sports section?
300
A fictional story where the characters have to be detectives to solve a problem. This type of story is usually filled with suspense!
What is a Mystery?
400

A book that has a collection of maps. This book also contains information about the land, crops and the population of an area.

What is an Atlas?

400

A part of a book that lists the meaning of words in the book.

What is the glossary?

400

An image or portion of text that when clicked on takes you to another page, image or sound.

What is a Hyperlink?

400
The section you would use to find books on robots or medicine.
What is the 600's, or Technology (Applied Science)?
400
A non-fiction book about a real persons life and their accomplishments or events that happened during their life written by someone else.
What is a Biography?
500
A pair of words at the top of a page. All of the words included on that page are between the two words in alphabetical order.
What are Guide Words?
500

An alphabetical listing at the end of a book that lists  topics and their page numbers.

What is an index?

500

This is to steal or pass off the ideas or words of another as your own. Be careful not to do this when you are doing research!

What is Plagiarism?

500
The section you would use to find books on poetry or authors.
What is the 800's, or Literature?
500
A fictional story where the setting and characters are part of a notable period in history.
What is historical fiction?