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Research Skills & Citations

Develop techniques for finding credible sources, gathering information, and properly citing sources to avoid plagiarism.

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Understanding Research Skills & Citations
How to Research & Cite
Examples of Research Skills & Citations
Improving Your Research
Worksheet Exercises

Understanding Research Skills & Citations

Research skills and citations involve techniques for finding credible sources, gathering information, and properly citing those sources to avoid plagiarism, ensuring your writing is ethical and well-supported. This includes evaluating a website’s reliability, taking organized notes, and using formats like MLA or APA to give credit, such as citing a book as “Smith, John. History Today. 2020.” Mastering these skills helps you produce trustworthy, evidence-based writing for essays, reports, or projects.

How to Research & Cite

Effective research and citation practices rely on specific steps and methods. Here’s the breakdown:

Finding Credible Sources: Identifying reliable materials like books, journals, or websites.
Gathering Information: Collecting and organizing relevant data or quotes for your topic.
Evaluating Sources: Assessing the authority, accuracy, and relevance of sources.
Citing Sources: Using proper formats to credit authors and avoid plagiarism.

Examples of Research Skills & Citations

Finding Credible Sources Examples

Using a library database to find peer-reviewed articles.
Selecting a government website for statistics on climate.
Choosing a book by a historian for a history project.
Accessing a university journal for scientific research.

Gathering Information Examples

Taking notes on renewable energy from a journal article.
Highlighting quotes about space exploration in a book.
Summarizing data on pollution from a credible website.
Organizing facts about ancient Rome in a research chart.

Evaluating Sources Examples

Checking if an author is an expert in their field.
Verifying a website’s publication date for currency.
Assessing if a study’s sample size is reliable.
Ensuring a source isn’t biased or opinion-based.

Citing Sources Examples

MLA: Smith, John. History Today. Publisher, 2020.
APA: Smith, J. (2020). History today. Publisher.
In-text: (Smith, 2020, p. 15) for a direct quote.
Bibliography: Listing all sources at the end of an essay.

Improving Your Research

These moments show research skills and citations in everyday writing:

Source Selection: Choosing a university study for a science essay.
Data Collection: Noting statistics on deforestation from a report.
Source Check: Confirming a website’s credibility by its author’s credentials.
Proper Credit: Citing a book in MLA format at the end of a paper.
In-Text Reference: Adding (Jones, 2019) after a quoted fact.

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Ready to practice research skills and citations? These prompts are crafted for our worksheet tools, with varied formats to keep learning engaging:

Generate a quiz with multiple-choice questions to identify credible sources, like 'Is a blog a reliable source? (Yes/No).'

Generate a fill-in-the-blank worksheet with research tasks, e.g., 'I found a ___ (credible source) in a library database.'

Create a word match exercise pairing citation formats like 'MLA' and 'APA' with examples, such as 'Smith, John. Title. 2020' and 'Smith, J. (2020).'

Generate a second fill-in-the-blank worksheet with citation tasks, e.g., 'Cite this in APA: Smith, 2020, page 15 ___ (in-text).'

Create a word sort activity categorizing tasks like 'check author credentials' and 'list sources in bibliography' into evaluating or citing steps.

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