You Are a Reporter for Your College Newspaper and Planning

question 14

Essay

You are a reporter for your college newspaper and planning ahead for some columns for a weekly Internet column. The only questions you ever get are about one or two search engines and your experience tells you that few of your fellow students know anything about subject guides. You decide to make notes about what you would like to cover. Record the information you want to cover when you write about annotations.

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Definitions:

Causal Explanations

The reasons given for why events happen, often focusing on identifying the factors or conditions that bring about certain outcomes.

Alternative Explanations

Different reasons or theories proposed to explain the same phenomenon, especially when the original explanation is challenged.

True Experiment

A type of scientific experiment where the researcher manipulates one variable and controls/randomizes the rest to observe the effect on a dependent variable.

Quasi-Experiment

A research design lacking random assignment of subjects to experimental and control groups, yet employing intervention and examination of its effects.