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Research 101

Research 101. Miranda Ball Muscle Shoals High School 2012. Evaluating Websites. RADCAB R-Relevancy-Is this what I am looking for? A-Appropriateness-Is it suitable for my audience? Will it help to answer my research question?

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Research 101

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  1. Research 101 Miranda Ball Muscle Shoals High School 2012

  2. Evaluating Websites RADCAB • R-Relevancy-Is this what I am looking for? • A-Appropriateness-Is it suitable for my audience? Will it help to answer my research question? • D-Detail-Does it have enough information? Is the information “deep” enough to answer my questions? • C-Currency-Is the information current? • A-Authority-Who is the author? What credentials do they have? • B-Bias-Why was it written? Is it trying to sell me a product or an idea?

  3. Comparing Two Websites • www.whitehouse.net • www.whitehouse.gov

  4. Before He Cheats

  5. What is Plagiarism? • According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, to "plagiarize" means: • to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own • to use (another's production) without crediting the source • to commit literary theft • to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source. www.plagiarism.org

  6. Examples of Plagiarism • turning in someone else's work as your own • copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit • failing to put a quotation in quotation marks • giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation • changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit • copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not www.plagiarism.org

  7. University of Alabama Honor Code I promise or affirm that I will not at any time be involved with cheating, plagiarism, fabrication, or misrepresentation while enrolled as a student at The University of Alabama. I have read the Academic Honor Code, which explains disciplinary procedures that will result from the aforementioned. I understand that violation of this code will result in penalties as severe as indefinite suspension from the University. www.ua.edu

  8. You Must Cite • Words or ideas presented in a magazine, book, newspaper, song, TV program, movie, Web page, computer program, letter, advertisement, or any other medium • Information you gain through interviewing or conversing with another person, face to face, over the phone, or in writing • When you copy the exact words or a unique phrase • When you reprint any diagrams, illustrations, charts, pictures, or other visual materials • When you reuse or repost any electronically-available media, including images, audio, video, or other media www.owl.english.purdue.edu

  9. You Don’t Have to Cite • Writing your own lived experiences, your own observations and insights, your own thoughts, and your own conclusions about a subject • When you are writing up your own results obtained through lab or field experiments • When you use your own artwork, digital photographs, video, audio, etc. • When you are using "common knowledge," things like folklore, common sense observations, myths, urban legends, and historical events (but not historical documents) • When you are using generally-accepted facts, e.g., pollution is bad for the environment, including facts that are accepted within particular discourse communities, e.g., in the field of composition studies, "writing is a process" is a generally-accepted fact. www.owl.english.purdue.edu

  10. Common Knowledge As a rule of thumb, something is considered common knowledge if it can be found in five or more reputable sources or can be found easily in reference sources. But, when in doubt, cite! www.owl.english.purdue.edu

  11. Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting www.owl.english.purdue.edu

  12. Direct Quotations • Don’t use too many direct quotations. • If the quotation is less than four typed lines, you can cite it in your paper without setting it off. If it is more than four typed lines, you skip to the next line and indent one inch from the left margin (for MLA) • If you add information to a direct quotation, put what you have added in [brackets] • To shorten quotes by removing extra information, use ellipsis points (...) to indicate omitted text, keeping in mind that: • Three ellipsis points indicates an in-sentence ellipsis, and four points for an ellipsis between two sentences www.owl.english.purdue.owl

  13. For More Help www.plagiarism.com www.citationmachine.net www.owl.english.purdue.edu www.homeworkalabama.org Add Muscle Shoals High School Library on Facebook

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