Writing research papers is a specialized academic activity which has specific terminology associated with it. You will feel more at home with the activity if you are aware of the concepts associated with the associated tasks and subtasks. The following exercises are designed to familiarize you with some of the the special words and phrases. They are grouped according to topic: Library Terms, Composing a Paper, Format of a Paper. (The complete, alphabetized glossary is at the back of the textbook Writing a Research Paper.)

LIBRARY TERMS

In the following exercises, four definitions are given for each word or phrase that is underlined. Only one definition is correct; the others are either incorrect or only partially correct or the definition may be a possible meaning but NOT in THIS research paper context. Select the correct definition from the pull-down list below each question.

1. Daniel read an abstract of the article and decided it would be useful for his research paper.

The definition of the underlined term is

2. Danielle prepared the list of references cited in her term paper, but she forgot to put them in alphabetical order.

3. There were many interesting facts in the annual report of the United Nations Children's Fund Working Group.

4. Angela read four articles related to her research paper.

5. The letter of complaint received by Angelo was anonymous, so he could do nothing about it.

6. These volumes of papers on geraniums are biannual.

7. David decided to write a biography.

8. Jane had already read a lot of backround material for her term paper but decided that one more book was needed for her list.

9. William could not find the book on the stacks because he had copied the book number wrongly.