Grade 9 Research Writing Worksheet
This worksheet helps 9th-grade students practice essential research writing skills, including identifying reliable sources, formulating research questions, and understanding plagiarism.
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Grade 9 Research Writing Skills
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Read each question carefully and provide your best answer. This worksheet will assess your understanding of research writing principles.
1. Which of the following sources is generally considered the MOST reliable for academic research?
A personal blog post about a scientific discovery
A peer-reviewed journal article
A Wikipedia article
A commercial website selling a product
2. A good research question should be focused, arguable, and .
3. Instead of asking 'Are video games bad?', a more effective research question would be 'How do affect the academic performance of high school students?'
4. Plagiarism only occurs when you intentionally copy and paste large sections of text without citation.
True
False
5. Paraphrasing an author's ideas in your own words still requires a citation.
True
False
6. Explain the primary purpose of a thesis statement in a research paper.
Use the words below to complete the sentences.
7. A document or artifact created during the time under study, such as a diary or letter, is considered a .
8. An academic article analyzing a historical event is an example of a .
9. Giving credit to the original author of information used in your research is done through a .
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