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Designates that a source has been reviewed by people in the same field as the author; generally deemed more credible than sources not peer-reviewed
Peer Reviewed
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A source that interprets or analyzes primary sources; may have pictures, quotes, or graphics or primary sources in them
Secondary Source
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Using someone else’s words exactly as they are written
Direct Quote
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Using someone else’s ideas and putting them in your own words
Paraphrasing
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A type of source; a magazine or newspaper published at regular intervals
Periodical
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A document or physical object that was written or created during the time under study
Primary Source
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Refers to the “believability” of a source
Credibility
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A system to organize and store large amounts of data easily; access is often by subject; most libraries pay fees for databases
Database
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In research, a place that you find information
Source
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To steal or pass off the ideas or words of another as one's own; to use someone else's ideas or words without crediting the source
Plagiarism
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A reference inside of your text
in-text citation
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Recording information that allows another person to locate the source that you have used for your paper, also called “documenting”
Citing
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A research tool within Google designed for scholarly information gathering
Google Scholar
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