| A | B |
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| World Wide Web | variety of services & resources available across the Internet |
| search engine | program that searches documents for specified keywords & returns list of documents where keywords were found |
| annotation | brief summary or description of a Webpage |
| URL (Uniform Resource Locator) | description of the location of a Web site; the address of the site usually beginning with http:// |
| domain | part of the URL that identifies the sponsoring organization & type of sponsor |
| copyright | protection provided by law to authors of original work; author's consent is needed to copy, perform, etc. |
| bibliography | alphabetical listing of all resources consulted during research |
| plagiarism | presenting someone else's ideas, research, or opinion as your own |
| primary source | first hand testimony or direct evidence of topic under investigation;created during the time period or by person directly involved |
| secondary source | interprets & analyzes material from primary source; one step removed from primary source |
| diaries, autobiographies, speeches, letters, interviews | examples of primary sources |
| textbooks, biographies, histories,encyclopedias | examples of secondary sources |
| .edu or .gov | maintained by educational institution or govt. agency to provide reliable info. |
| .org | probably maintained by nonprofit organization to provide info. about issue/cause |
| .com | maintained commercially or personally to sell or promote something |
| .net | maintained by a network |
