Grade A| 100% Correct (Verified Answers)
CRAAP - ans -currency - consider seminal literature (pivotal studies for the field);
relevance; authority (peer-reviewed); accuracy (are the peer-reviewers real?);
purpose (click-bait?)
Primary - ans -research articles, first choice
Secondary - ans -articles that reference other studies, be careful (common nursing
websites)
Popular sources - ans -news websites (be wary of political standings of the news
provider)
Grey sources - ans -credible organizations' studies (ex. WHO)
Descriptive writing - ans -Write a summary
Reflective writing - ans -experience or event you read, relating to clinical practice;
analysis of you
Analytical writing - ans -Examining text/issue; looking at its parts to understand
the whole
Persuasive writing - ans -Persuade, influence, convince, & inspire audience to
believe your POV on a topic with many opinions & POVs
Critical writing - ans -Detailed assessment or evaluation of a text
Editorial writing - ans -Opinion/perspective piece
Literature Reviews - ans -Synthesize body of literature on a topic; summarize what
is known; combine multiple ideas into larger whole
Conversational tone - ans -informal, fun, & engaging; 2nd POV
, Professional tone - ans -formal, respectful, serious, punctuation, full sentences
Scientific tone - ans -impersonal, objective, facts, 3rd POV
Ironic tone - ans -subtle, humorous, dispassionate
Critical tone - ans -expose oppression & power inequalities
Rhetorical tone - ans -persuasive & simplistic
Political tone - ans -overtly convey ideology/belief
Peer-reviewed journal articles - ans -journals undergone rigorous & anonymous
review
Books - ans -not peer reviewed, questionable quality
Grey literature - ans -text outside academic channels; not peer reviewed
Complex texts - ans -read slowly, reread sections, look up new words
Dialectic note taking - ans -make a chart; use the left column for main ideas, right
for questions/comments
Summary - ans -flow, clarity, evidence, info, no wandering
Tone - ans -appropriateness, mood, language readable or not, positive/negative
Emotion - ans -emotion-provoking, bias,
Response - ans -is this going in the paper?
Boolean - ans -(AND, OR, & NOT)
Truncation (*) - ans -variations of a word
Quotation marks - ans -group words together into a phrase