RES/110 Introduction to Research and

Information Utilization Jeopardy Workshop #5

University of Phoenix

How the game is played . . .

Teams are named contestants (What would you like your name to be?) Instead of hitting a buzzard, you just shout

“Research!” If you get the answer right, you get to pick

again. The Team with the most money wins!

Format Critical Thinking

Writing Process

Referen- cing

Research

$100 $100 $100 $100 $100

$200 $200 $200 $200 $200

$300 $300 $300 $300 $300

$500 $500 $500 $500 $500

And the winner is?

The cover of an assignment which contains the name of the assignment, the student, and the school.

And the question is?

What is a title page?

Pick a category

The spaces-

>at the start of a paragraph

>or a 40-word quotation.

And the question is?

What is an indent?

Pick a category

Author, date, p.# or para. #

And the question is?

What must you include in the in-text citation for a direct quote?

Pick a category

The size of the font used in all papers.

And the question is?

What is 12?

Pick a category

The sign that goes between the names of authors when there are two or more.

And the question is?

What is an ampersand?

&Pick a category

The words used when searching for reference material.

And the question is?

What is a Boolean term?

Violence AND women

Steroids AND children NOT Athletes.

Pick a category

And the question is?

The term that indicates that other experts in the field have research that topic before the article was published.

Pick a category

What is peer-reviewed?

And the question is?

What library database contains a wealth of research on a great variety of topics of special interest to professionals?

Pick a category

What is ProQuest?

And the question is?

A great way to start exploring all aspects of a topic.

Pick a category

What is mindmapping . . . or brainstorming?

Sources that provide information in the form of

-facts,

-figures,

-information gathered by direct contact

-information not analyzed by others?

And the question is?

Pick a category

What are primary sources?

Terms or phrases that identify the topic addressed in subsequent

paragraphs?

And the question is?

What are headings?

Pick a category

The first part of a reference when you don’t have the author or the organization that wrote the article.

And the question is?

What is the title?

Pick a category

The words that, along with the present date, are needed in every source that was accessed through the Internet.

And the question is?

What is “Retrieved from”?

After Retrieved from and the date, you write: the URL or website address.

Pick a category

The way you write the title of journals or magazines or newspapers or TV

shows.

And the question is?

What is italics?

Pick a category

The paragraph that summarizes only the topics addressed in the

paper.

And the question is?

What is the conclusion?

Pick a category

The document you have when you first get all the parts of your paper together.

And the question is?

What is the draft?

Having the draft means you should at least rewrite the paper once. (Ideally)

Pick a category

An opinion or slant on a topic the impairs objectivity or impartial judgment.

And the question is?

What is bias?

Pick a category

A term used to describe information that can be trusted to be true.

And the question is?

What is reliable?

Pick a category

Going beyond the recall of information to doing some

research and looking at the pros and cons of an idea.

And the question is?

What is critical thinking?

Pick a category

Questioning information to see if the source is an expert or if the

information is true.

And the question is?

What is evaluating reference material?

Pick a category

The people in

this class.

Final question:

And the question is?

Who are the winners?

You are all well on your way to that academic victory of a degree.

Congratulations!