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Chapter 1
Lesson 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Plagiarism | To present someone's work as your own without giving proper credit |
| URL | the general term for an address of an online resource |
| Question note cards are most important because they | become your research tools |
| How can you distinguish fact from opinion in historical writing? | Look for biased statements of opinion |
| After you have gathered information and answer the questions on your note cards, the next step in writing your report | is to develop an outline |
| Besides the information that you found, something else that should be on your note card is | the books you used to find your information |
| When trying to decide if your selected research topic is too narrow. you should test it by | looking it up in the encyclopedia |
| Topic | the first step in a research project is to identify the topic |
| Credentials | well-known authors of reliable articles will have these to show that they are experts |
| Facts | historical research should rely on primary sources and facts or statements that can be proven to be true |
| The letters at the end of an Internet address that indicate it is a government Web site are | .gov |
| An example of a reference book is | an encyclopedia |
| The best way to avoid plagiarism is to | include a reference to the author |
| A Web site with the ending .org is more likely to contain biased information than a Web site with the ending .gov. | True |