Research Skills Vocabulary

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Research Skills Vocabulary
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Topic

• The subject or theme of a text, the big idea

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Heading

• A subtitle that organizes the information in a
  text

• Discovering the South Pole
• Today marks the 100th anniversary of the first
  successful expedition to the globe's southernmost
  point

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details

• Information that tells more of the topic

• Football
• Tebow
• Rothlesberger
• Manning
• Cowboys
• Falcons
• Stealers

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caption

• the title or explanation of a photo or picture

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plaigarize

• To take credit for someones else work by copying
  their writing, photos, drawings, etc. To steal
  someones work.

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reference texts

• Databases, directories, indexes, and the
  librarys online catalog all the information
  available for research on paper and electronic

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database

• A large collection of related data organized to
  be used easily usually in a computer or online.

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search engine

• A computer program that searches on the world
  wide web and gives a list of websites where the
  keyword is found

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paraphrase

• a restatement of text written in your own words

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citation

• the quoting of a book or author to support a fact

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website

•  a group of connected pages on the World Wide Web 
  containinginformation on a 
• particular subject

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electronic texts

• texts, books, magazine, newspapers, dictionaries,
  anything that can be read that is available online

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plaigarizing

• the taking of someone elses work and using it as
  your own without giving credit

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abstract

• a summary of a larger article or book

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FAQs

• an online help section

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periodicals

• Information that comes out on a regular basis,
  including newspapers, magazines, newsletters, and
  scholarly journals