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7th ELA- Unit 4-Research- Review Game

Website Reliability

Question: True or False? Websites ending in .com are always reliable.
Answer: False.

.com stands for commercial, which means it is a website of a business that is most likely trying to sell something or is in favor (one sided) of the product or company.

Question: Two types of websites ending in ._____ and .______ are always reliable because they are published and managed by either the government or an education center.
Answer: . gov and .edu

Question: What does it mean to find information from websites that are reliable?
Answer: The information from the websites is trustworthy or credible.

Question: Name three types of websites that are not considered reliable when gathering information for research.
Answer: Social Networking website (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, KIK)
An author's personal website
Celebrity news and gossip magazine website
A blog website (About.com, YahooAnswers.com, Ask.com)

Question: What are three types of websites that would contain reliable information?
Answer: National news magazine or newspaper website
Website for a national cable TV new network
Website ending in .gov
Website ending in .edu


Internet Search

Question: What would happen if you typed this into the Google search box: "How much does a full-grown German Shepard dog weigh?" Is this a good way to search for information when doing research?
Answer: Websites like Yahooanswers.com, Wikipedia, Ask.com, etc. (websites where the public can post and add information) would be at the top of search results. This is NOT a good way to search for information/answers when doing research.

Question: If you wanted to find out how much a full-grown German Shepard dog weighs, what would be the best search term or terms to type into the search engine box?
Answer: German Shepard adult weight
German Shepard full grown weight

Question: You are wanting to find out what the largest cat breed is. What would happen if you had just typed in "Cat Breeds" into the search engine box?
Answer: There would be too many results of cat breeds to sort through before finding the largest cat breed.

Question: If the internet search results are too large, what should you do to improve your internet search so the results are more accurate for the information you are looking for?
Answer: Add more relevant (related) words to your search.

Question: If you were to add more relevant words to your search of finding the largest cat breed, than just typing "Cat" or "Cat Breed", what relevant words would you type into the search engine box?
Answer: Largest Cat Breed in World
Biggest Breed of Cat

Internet Citations

Question: When creating a citation for a website you used for a research project, what do you do when you don't see an author of the page/article?
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Answer: You leave it blank. There is no author given.

Question: In the following citation, what the 6 Apr. 2014. called?

Plasket, Kelli. "An Earthquake Rocks Chile." Time For Kids. Time, 2 Apr.2014. Web. 6 Apr. 2014. http://www.timeforkids.com/news/earthquake-rocks-chile/155471.
Answer: Date of Access

Question: What is the name of this website AND what is the title of the article? http://www.timeforkids.com/news/earthquake-rocks-chile/155471
Answer: Name of the Website is Time For Kids

Name of the Article is "An Earthquake Rocks Chile"

Question: Where would you find the copyright date of any website? What is the copyright date, and who is the publisher of this website? http://www.timeforkids.com/news/earthquake-rocks-chile/155471
Answer: The copyright date and publisher are always found at the bottom of the web page.
The date of the article is April 2, 2014 (copyright 2014) and the Publisher is Time Inc.

Question: What would you call this?

http://www.timeforkids.com/news/earthquake-rocks-chile/155471
Answer: URL

Paraphrase/Plagiarism

Question: What is Plagiarism?
Answer: When someone takes the exact (or close to) words, phrases, ideas and claiming them as their own.

Question: What does it mean to paraphrase?
Answer: Taking that information and putting it into your own words.

Question: The original text:

Students frequently overuse direct quotation in taking notes, and as a result they overuse quotations in the final [research] paper. Probably only about 10% of your final manuscript should appear as directly quoted matter. Therefore, you should strive to limit the amount of exact transcribing of source materials while taking notes.

Below is a student's attempt to paraphrase the original text. Did they truly paraphrase or did they plagiarize? Explain.

Students often use too many direct quotations when they take notes, resulting in too many of them in the final research paper. In fact, probably only about 10% of the final copy should consist of directly quoted material. So it is important to limit the amount of source material copied while taking notes.
Answer: The student plagiarized. They only replaced a few words with synonyms, and did not restructure any of the sentences.

Question: Original text:

Students frequently overuse direct quotation in taking notes, and as a result they overuse quotations in the final [research] paper. Probably only about 10% of your final manuscript should appear as directly quoted matter. Therefore, you should strive to limit the amount of exact transcribing of source materials while taking notes.

Paraphrase or Plagiarized?

In research papers students often quote excessively, failing to keep quoted material down to a desirable level. Since the problem usually originates during note taking, it is essential to minimize the material recorded verbatim.
Answer: The student paraphrased from the original text. They still included all of the important ideas, but made it their own by rearranging the sentence structure, combined ideas and used synonyms of some words.

Question: What are some ways to avoid plagiarism? Remember: Don't be a Short Sherman, Synonym Sally or a Nonsense Nelly!
Answer: Answers will vary. Don't have the original text in front of you while making notes, rearrange the sentence structure, use synonyms where possible, combine ideas/sentences or break them up.

Phrases/Clauses/Types of Sentences

Question: How do you fix a sentence with a misplaced modifier?
Answer: Move the descriptive word or phrase (adjectives) to be next to the subject it's describing.

Question: What type of word makes a clause a dependent clause? In the following sentence, which word is it?

While I was studying for the test, my mom baked chocolate chip cookies and she delivered them up to my room with a tall glass of milk.
Answer: A curve ball word (AWUBISE)

The word in the sentence that makes it dependent is While.

Question: What part of the sentence is the independent clause?

While I was studying for the test, my mom baked chocolate chip cookies and she delivered them up to my room with a tall glass of milk.
Answer: Both "my mom baked chocolate chip cookies" and "she delivered them up to my room with a tall glass of milk" are independent clauses.

Question: This sentence contains a misplaced modifier:

She served sandwiches to the children on paper plates.

What would be the best correction, so it makes sense?
Answer: It looks like the children were on the paper plates, and being served sandwiches. It makes more sense to say "She served sandwiches on paper plates to the children."

Question: What are the "formulas" for a complex sentence, compound sentence and a compound/complex sentence? You must name all 3 to receive the points!
Answer: Complex = Independent Clause + Dependent Clause
Compound= Independent Clause + Conjunction + Independent Clause
Compound/Complex= Dependent Clause + Independent Clause + Conjunction + Independent Clause