Academic Vocabulary for Research Unit

TERM / DEFINITIION / YOUR PICTURE & SENTENCE USING THE WORD CORRECTLY
primary research

/ Primary researchis any type ofresearchthat you go out and collect yourself. Examples include surveys, interviews, observations, and ethnographicresearch. / ______
secondary research

/ Secondary research(also known as deskresearch) involves the summary, collation and/or synthesis of existing
research. / ______
synthesize (v.)
/ Synthesize –to form by combining parts or elements, pulling together / ______
news article
/ A news article is a piece of writing about a particular subject that is published in a newspaper or magazine (usually straight news). When we talk about articles, we are usually referring to factual pieces (not containing opinion). / ______
editorial (op-ed)
/ An editorial is an article that contains the writer's opinion – an opinion piece. / ______
summary

/ A summary is a brief statement or account of the main points of something. / ______
paraphrase

ORIGINAL: “Another useful method for locating source material for a particular topic is to check the library shelves or catalogue for books having the same classification number as other books to which reference has been made” (Anderson & Poole 2001).
PARAPHRASE: Anderson and Poole advise that looking for books with the same call number as an identified reference may help in finding more information on a specific subject (2001). / When you paraphrase a quote, you are rewording something written or spoken by someone else. / ______
direct quotation

/ When you include a direct quotation, you are using the exact words of the speaker. / ______
bibliographic entry

We will be using MLA format for each of our bibliographic entries.
A great website to help you format bibliographic entries is / A bibliographic entry is the listing of the source with author, title, place and date of publication, and publisher in a prescribed format (MLA or APA, for example). / ______
Works Cited page

Any research paper must include a Works Cited page. On your Works Cited page, you list off every source you’ve referenced in alphabetical order, following MLA format. / A Works Cited page is an alphabetized list ofworks cited, which appears at the end of your research paper, that gives publication information for each of the sources you havecitedin the paper. / ______

REVIEW of Vocabulary from Unit One

  1. The man used a sarcastic tone when he thanked the waitress for his meal as she had given him the wrong meal twice.
  1. Lebron’s return to Cleveland caused many people to think of him as a savior, but can he really redeem himself and lead the Cavaliers to the promised land?

The words “savior,” “redeem,” and “promised land” are examples of evocative religious ______.

  1. The room was dark and cold, and in the middle of the room was a grape-sized pearl as black as coal. (This example uses sight and touch ______)
  1. When describing the car accident, the bystander used very specific ______, such as time, direction, and location.
  1. The Queen of England uses formal, almost stilted, ______when she speaks publically.
  1. At the end of the movie, Sam died.

Sam died at the end of the movie.

These two sentences say the same thing, but the ______of each sentence is different.

  1. If someone is told he is a “big mouth,” the ______isn’t that his mouth is physically large; rather, it is that he doesn’t know when to keep quiet.
  1. The words “buck” and “deer” have very similar______.
  1. In his conversation with his girlfriend, he used a very ______, calling her “honey” and “sweetie bear.”
  1. A research paper requires a______; personal references and contractions are to be avoided.