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Which of the following extensions in a URL should be avoided in a scholarly research paper?
.com
What is a URL?
A specific electronic address called a Uniform Resource Locator
What does this URL tell you about the sources? http://vos.ucsb.edu
It is associated with an edcuational institution.
All of the following are criteria used to evaluate information EXCEPT:
Synthesized sources
What is the goal of exploratory research?
To formulate a research question -- the question that you want your paper to answer.
Dropping the ending of a word or term and replacing it with a symbol as a way to broaden a search is an example of _____________. For example, you might type in the search term "home school*" to allow you to search for records including "home school, home schooling, home schooled, or home schoolers."
Truncation
How is truncation helpful when you are conducting a web search?
Truncation is used to increase a search with various endings without having to write all of the endings. For example, rather than searching "home school, home schools, home schoolers, home schooling," you could type in "home school#" and pick up the different possible endings to widen your search.
When is it useful to use quotation marks for an Internet or database search?
When you want to search for a specific phrase: Civil War
Which of the following is characteristic of articles in scholarly journals?
Written by experts in a particular field
Use __________ around an insertion or a change needed to make a quotation conform grammatically to your sentence, such as a change in the form of a verb or pronoun.
brackets (Ex: "Music is [shaken] from the buckled harness.")
Which of the following can be accessed from the HCC library webpage to locate newspaper, magazine, or journal articles?
ebscohost
. Knowing how to write well is an academic skill that usually will have little application after graduation.
false
Because a research paper relies heavily on sources, it will therefore have little or nothing original in it.
false
Mentioning opposing sources in a paper on a controversial topic weakens the paper.
false
To separate your words from those of a source, use signal phrases such as "According to Smith." When you cite a source for the first time in a signal phrase, you should use the the author's _____________ name.
full name
Which search engine is recognized as the best available because it accesses a large database, is easy to navigate, and yields a high percentage of useful hits.
__________ Scholar, is the name of a recent search engine which searches for scholarly literature, including peer reviewed papers, books, abstracts, and technical reports.
Which of the following is NOT a search engine?
internet explorer
On the "Works Cited" page of the research paper, you should include
only the sources that you actually used in your paper through summary, paraphrase, or quotation.
When creating a survey, "Do you think smoking should be limited to the parking lots at HCC? Why or why not?" is an example of a/an ___________ question.
open-ended
Failing to acknowledge a source when you have used another's words, ideas, or information is referred to as ___________________.
plagiarism
An article on the Mayo Clinic website that highlights asthma information from the book Mayo Clinic Fitness for Everybody is an example of a _____________ source.
secondary
A ___________ presents only the main ideas of a source, leaving out example and details.
summary
Which of the following statements is NOT true about magazine articles?
the information is not usually current
A writer's own ideas are stimulated by reading others' ideas.
true
Acquiring work from commercial sources, including buying papers off the web or paying someone to do the work, is plagiarism.
true
Allowing another student to claim your work as his/her own is an act of collusion and makes you as well as the other student guilty of plagiarism.
true
Citing the sources used in a paper is important for avoiding plagiarism.
true
Copying and pasting text from any web site without citing the source is plagiarism.
true
Copying and pasting text from on-line media, such as journal articles, without citing the source is plagiarism.
true
Replacing a few selected words using a thesaurus or just using words from your own head to get synonyms is plagiarizing.
true
Submitting an essay or paper that was written for another class or purpose without consent of the current instructor is plagiarism.
true
The sources used in a research paper should support the writer's ideas.
true
Using another student's work and claiming it as your own, even with the student's permission, is plagiarism.
true
Using your previous work in any way as a basis for a new assignment without citing the original work in the bibliography is plagiarism.
true
Writing helps people discover what they think about something.
true
What types of information must you evaluate?
websites, articles, books
Which of the following a NOT a situation in which you should quote the wording of a source:
when you wish to restate all of the relevant information from a passage
Which of the following statements is NOT true about journal articles?
Journals are usually owned by small libraries.
Because most of your sources are written by highly educated writers, you will not need to explain what a quotation means.
false
Citations are merely for academic accountability and do not help the reader of the paper.
false
Citing sources weakens the writer's own argument.
false
Which of the following is NOT a truncation symbol that you would use with your subject heading in a search engine?
$
Most of the library databases provided by the library contain both abstracts and full text articles. What is an abstract?
Brief summary of a research article.
Which of the following is not a question that you would ask when evaluating the Accuracy of material?
Does the site express a particular viewpoint?
Which of the following is a characteristic of articles in a magazine?
Usually written to entertain or educate the general public.
What are the three main search expressions, or operators, recognized by Boolean logic?
and, or, not
Who can publish on the web?
anyone
