Ethical Research
A term meaning "partiality" or "prejudice" that is not a part of ethical research.
What is Bias?
This is the act of jotting down free-form ideas in one's head in an attempt to find a viable research topic.
What is Brainstorming?
This button needs to be marked if the researcher wants reliable sources checked by experts in the field.
What is the "peer-reviewed" button?
This commonly used website is not viewed as scholarly because non-experts can change the published information.
What is Wikipedia?
The act of taking the thoughts and ideas of someone else and attempting to pass them off as one's own.
What is Plagiarism?
The more ____ your research topic, the better your essay will be.
What is Specific?
The two best places to find free, reliable, scholarly sources.
What are The Montreat Library Database and Google Scholar?
This type of book publisher is typically reliable and scholarly.
What is a University Press?
The founder of one of our argumentative models who heralded ethos, or ethics, as the most valuable aspect of rhetoric.
Who is Aristotle?
The the main concepts and synonyms extracted from a topic that are meant to help specify research.
What are Keywords?
The short summary researchers can read to evaluate the applicability of a source before reading the entire text.
What is an Abstract?
The strategy researchers must apply when reading a possible source.
What is Critical Reading?
A program that distorts ethical research by hallucinating and thereby fabricating information.
What is ChatGPT?
Querying a broad concept in order to derive more valuable, specific topics.
What are Insightful Questions?
You can use these terms in the databases to find more fitting resources.
What are Keywords?
The main reason why researchers need to use scholarly resources to support their writing.
What is Expertise?