AP LANG Spring Final - von der Linden

Benefits of Concept Mapping:

From LibGuide

Keywords vs Subject Terms

  • Keywords

    • Natural world language terms - broad, everyday words - helps for start of research process

  • Subject Terms

    • More specific to databases - much more scholarly - specific to things related to the topics.

Types of Searching - Vocab

  • Federated Searching

    • Information retrieval technology that provides simultaneous searching across multiple resources - kind of similar to lateral reading

  • Iterative Searching

    • Repetitive search process where the terms and strategies are honed as the research process advances

  • Site-specific searching

    • Basically, just searching through a specific site

      • Use site:

Stages of Pre-searching

Research Process Stages

  • PRE-Searching → PRE-Searching → RE-Searching → Writing → RE-Searching

  • Pre-search vs Research

    • Pre-search

      • Informal, exploring phase - used for getting background knowledge, help narrow a topic

    • Research

      • Producing evidence, locating sources to investigate selected topic

Boolean Operators

Advanced Research Strategies

  • Result Refining:

    • Using limiters to narrow initial results

  • Journal Runs:

    • Conducting focused searches inside a given journal

  • Pearl Growing:

    • Mining citation or subject headings

  • Forward Chaining:

    • Finding sources that cited the article you located

  • Backward Chaining:

    • Using an article’s citations to find others

Types of Resources

  • OPAC

    • Online Public Access Catalog

  • RSS Feeds

    • Really Simple Syndication (RSS)

      • Simple, standardized content distribution method that helps a researcher stay up-to-date with a specific information from databases, newcasts, websites, social media channels, etc.

        • Constant updates about a topic searched up

  • Types of sources (like actual sources)

    • Primary Source

      • Records of events or evidence from that moment in time without any interpretation or commentary

      • Info that is original

        • ex: Gov reports, photographs, poems, original artwork, etc.

    • Secondary Source

      • Analysis or restatement of primary sources

      • Describe or explain a primary source

      • Summarize, interpret, or provide value to a primary source

        • ex: textbooks, books and articles that are reviews over other subjects

    • Tertiary Source

      • Index, abstract, organize, compline or digest other sources

      • Typically not credited to a particular author

        • ex: Dictionaries/encyclopedias - could also be secondary - wikipedia, textbooks, and more

    • Scholarly Sources

      • Useful for in-depth research

      • Contain academic vocab

      • Extensive source references

      • Peer-reviewed to ensure reliability

      • Assist in answering the “So What?” question

    • Popular Sources

      • Useful for general knowledge

      • May entertain, inform, or persuade

      • Assist in answering the 5 W’s and H

      • Has research, but doesn’t have full citation

    • Trade Publications

      • Useful for general news, trends, and opinions in a specific industry or profession

      • Not peer-reviewed

      • Not focused on advancing a field of knowledge or reporting research findings

      • Considered essential in the field of business and specialized industry

    • Resources:

      • OCLC

      • GALE

      • DESTINY

      • EBSCO

Information Cycle

Types of Possible Content

  • Misinformation:

    • False, but not with the intent to harm

  • Malinformation:

    • Based on reality, used with the intent to harm

  • Disinformation:

    • False, and deliberately created with the intent to harm

  • Fabricated Content:

    • Uses content that is made up and designed to fool

  • False Context:

    • Uses and image, quote, or other piece of content and puts it into a new, false context to change its meaning

  • Imposter Content:

    • Uses a well-known brand, name, or logo to fool a person into believing it’s real

  • Manipulated Content:

    • Uses the alteration of the original to deceive

  • Satire:

    • Uses humor or exaggeration to critique or mock

TRAPPED Model

CLUE

  • CLUE - a way to introduce a source and explain the evidence being evidence

    • Claim:

    • Lead-in:

    • Use the Evidence:

    • Explain:

Quote Formatting - MLA

  • Block Quote Format:

    • 4 or more lines

    • No quotes

    • Indent

  • In-text Citation:

  • Source Citation:

  • Works Cited Page Format:

    • Alphabetical order

AP-Style Readings and Questions

  • Composition

  • Style

  • Editing