Information Discovery Crossword
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- 6. Works that are available through your library.
- 8. Any time you look for information, the _ you look for will depend on your purpose, audience, and other elements of your rhetorical situation.
- 11. Examples of this are length requirements or due dates.
- 12. Sources such as official reports, legislative records, texts of laws, maps and photos, census data, other information from federal, state, and local _.
- 13. First, analyze your _ situation.
- 15. An example of this is format, or any specific charts or illustrations.
- 18. Will you _ a position?
- 20. Be sure to _ your sources when you search the internet.
- 21. signs are used by some search sites instead of AND and NOT.
- 23. It's when you generate ideas.
- 24. is when you include what those before you have said about your topic.
- 26. _ allows symbols such as ? or * to stand in for missing letters.
- 28. Sources such as books and journal articles, for secondary research.
- 29. _ marks can be used to search for an exact phrase.
- 31. Another form of doing research for your topic. Users fill it out for you.
- 32. _ allow you to combine Boolean searches in a more complex way.
- 34. Sometimes _ works will serve as essential sources of information.
- 35. Sources such as Wikipedia.
- 36. _ operators (AND, OR, and NOT) let you combine keywords in different ways.
- 37. Plot out a working _. A brief statement of what you claim in your essay.
- 38. Catalogs that are searchable by author, title, and subject.
- 39. Examples of this are images, audio, video. The media you include in your essay.
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- 1. Types of works that include encyclopedias and almanacs.
- 2. Your readers are your _.
- 3. Your attitude toward the topic, and your audience. How you establish your authority with your audience.
- 4. Articulate a _ your research will answer. It requires more than a simple yes or no answer.
- 5. access Type of archives and databases that do not require a library subscription to access.
- 7. Will you write a _ essay?
- 9. Reference _ are provided by all college libraries to assist faculty and students with research inquiries.
- 10. Will you _ information?
- 11. Sources that have the latest news and research about your topic.
- 14. Will you _ some kind of data?
- 16. Field _ are more than casual people watching.
- 17. Doing _ means more than finding sources. It means finding out what's been said about the topic, and then you write about the topic, adding in your own ideas to that conversation.
- 19. The type of writing that you choose. A _
- 21. Sources that are original documents. Firsthand accounts of events, or field research like interviews or observations.
- 22. You may find the best way to answer your research question is to _ people.
- 25. _ searches allow you to insert a symbol (?, *) at the end of a word for multiple forms of a word.
- 27. It's when you move from a too general topic, to a more manageable one.
- 28. Establish a _. This will help you meet your deadlines.
- 30. You can also use the _ to search, when you first start your research.
- 33. Sources that are texts that analyze and interpret primary sources.
- 35. What do you hope to accomplish by doing this research?