This is the first step in the Research Process model.
What is Focus or Plan?
100
When taking notes we usually do not write in full sentences. We write our notes this way.
What are short phrases, sentence fragments and key words?
100
This is the definition of paraphrasing.
What is putting text in your own words?
100
This type of punctuation is needed when using exact words from a source.
What are quotation marks?
100
When handing in a report or putting together a presentation, it is not complete without this.
What is a bibliography or a list of your sources of information?
200
This is the best place to go to find out if the Hillcrest library has a book on your topic.
What is the library catalog?
200
If using cards for note-taking, they can be useful for doing this before starting to write a report or put together a presentation.
What is an outline or sequence?
200
This is how we summarize fiction, which is much different from summarizing non-fiction.
What is telling the plot of a story? (Beginning, middle, end).
200
This is the definition of plagiarism.
What is using information without giving credit to the source?
200
These are the types of information that are found in a bibliography.
What is the author, title, copyright date, etc.?
300
A book is this kind of source, which is the opposite of a digital source.
What is a print source?
300
These are additional items, besides facts, that should be written on your notecard or on your page of notes.
What is the source of our information and the page number(s)?
300
This is finding and stating the main ideas of a paragraph or chapter of a non-fiction text.
What is summarizing?
300
Name two consequences of plagiarism.
What is failing a course, having to re-write a paper, getting a zero, getting fired from a job, facing legal action, etc.
300
If you use a website as a source of information, you have to provide this type of information in your bibliography.
What is the web address or date of access?
400
This is the beginning paragraph of your research paper that tells the reader the topic and what one can expect to read about.
What is the introduction?
400
This is the name of the categories into which we can divide our topic.
What are subtopics?
400
The last paragraph of a report sums up the main ideas about the topic and may include a final fact.
What is the conclusion?
400
List two ways to avoid plagiarism.
What is quoting, paraphrasing, including a bibliography, giving credit within the text, etc.?
400
If you give credit to an author in the body of your report you should also include this.
What is the page number?
500
When your source of information is a person who can give a first-hand account of an event or time period, either in-person or in the form of a letter of diary.
What is a primary source?
500
When we write notes about our topic we are doing these two things at the same time.
What are paraphrasing and summarizing?
500
Each paragraph in your report should begin with this type of sentence to let the reader know what the paragraph will be about.
What is a topic sentence?
500
It is possible to plagiarize material that is not found in a book.
What is using someone else's song, music, artwork, etc.?
500
This is the required format or arrangement when you provide a list of your sources of information.