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Research Week 7
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Fourth grade review of research
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You do not want a source to be biased. What does the word biased mean?
Grammatically correct
Emotional and convincing
Informative and fair
opinionated and persuading
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What are advantages of secondary research?
Very cheap to obtain
Confidential to other businesses
Up-to-date information
Time-consuming
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Which of the following is a periodical?
a website
an encyclopedia
a fiction book
a magazine
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TRUE OR FALSE: If a website has a lot of advertisements on it, it might be less reliable.
FALSE
TRUE
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Which of the following is a clear sign of an untrustworthy online source?
A plain-looking logo
Links to other sources
Lots of text with very few graphics
Grammatical mistakes
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What is primary research?
Data that is already available to use
First-hand data collected by a business
Secondary data
Qualitative and Quantitative Data
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Is primary research...
research collected by yourself
research collected by someone other than yourself
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What are advantages of primary research?
Obtainable quickly
Costly to a company
Up-to-date compared to secondary data
Not relevant to a businesses needs
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Which of the following is an example of a primary source from World War II?
Oral report about WW II that has quotes by famous generals
A movie about WW II that is extremelyrealistic
A book about WW II written in 1985
A collection of pictures taken by soldiers duringWW II
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Which of the following should you AVOID using for research?
An interview
A personal website
A nonfiction book
An encyclopedia
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"Not all information on the Internet has been authenticated." What does"authenticated" mean?
Checked for accuracy
Published in a book
Approved by your teacher
Spell-checked
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What can you infer from the presence of link rot on a website?
The site's publisher must have sold the site
Very little of the information on the site is accurate
The site's publisher has done a poor job maintainingthe site
The site's publisher did a poor job designing the site
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TRUE OF FALSE: You can use a photograph as a source for a research paper.
TRUE
FALSE
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TRUE OR FALSE: Collaborative websites such as wikis can be edited and changed by many people.
FALSE
TRUE
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TRUE OR FALSE: If you are writing a research paper, you only need one source for all your info.
TRUE
FALSE
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TRUE OR FALSE: Since collaborative websites can be edited by many people, they are reliable.
TRUE
FALSE
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Ethics in research are:
important
a thrill to throw to the four winds
a joke
a waste of time
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TRUE OR FALSE: If a website does not have a clear author stated, it is less reliable.
FALSE
TRUE
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TRUE OR FALSE: It is better to use online resources instead of print resources for research.
FALSE
TRUE
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How does information on an academic website differ from information on a personal website?
Information on academic websites has been fact-checked more
Information on academic websites is always true
Info on academic websites contains links to other resources
Information on academic websites never containsopinions
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How is an encyclopedia like an Internet search engine?
They both feature music and video
They are both poor sources of reliable information
They can both point you to additional sources andtexts
They both contain information that hasn't been fact-checked
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What is research?
investigating information
reading a book
writing a paper
going on the internet
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What should you do before you incorporate Internet sources into a research paper?
Ask your friends to recommend their favorite sites
Look only at the most popular websites
Don't use the Internet in a research paper
Check with teachers to make sure your sources are appropriate
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TRUE OR FALSE: A good place to go for all your research needs is the library.
FALSE
TRUE
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What do fact-checking and cross-checking have in common?
Both use statistics to prove the accuracyof information
Both can be used to determine the accuracy of information
Neither is necessary when you're writing a researchpaper
Neither requires the use of more than one source
