Source Sets, Note-Taking, and Synthesis Planning Worksheet
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Source Sets, Note-Taking, and Synthesis Planning Worksheet
Grade 7 English Language Arts LearnCrux.com
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Directions
- Fill in each blank carefully.
- Circle or mark the best answer for each multiple-choice question.
- Match each prompt to the best option before writing your answer.
- Use the larger space to show your thinking on word problems.
1. Match the note-taking habit to its purpose: label direct quotations clearly
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2. Which research question is most manageable for a short source set?
3. A writer combines related evidence from two or more sources to build one explanation. This is called __.
4. Which note belongs under the category "evidence about sleep and attention"?
5. Why is organizing notes by idea stronger than organizing them only by source?
6. Match the writing move to its job: citation
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7. A source that is trustworthy and useful for the question is __.
8. Which sentence best plans a synthesis paragraph?
9. Why should students record source information before drafting?
10. A stronger source-based paragraph still needs the writer’s own __.
📋 Teacher Answer Key
1. helps prevent accidental plagiarism
2. How do later school start times affect middle school attention?
3. synthesis
4. A study reported higher alertness after later start times.
5. Organizing by idea helps the writer compare and combine evidence instead of stacking one-source summaries
6. shows where the information came from
7. credible
8. Use Source A for the statistic, Source B for the explanation, then connect both to the claim.
9. Keeping source details early makes citation easier and reduces the chance of losing where an idea came from
10. explanation