HIS103 Week 2

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Tertiary Sources

All the above

An examples of a popular resource is

Time magazine

All citations must include the author's last name.

True

Ancient civilizations in the Americas developed sophisticated water management systems for purpose such as irrigation and drainage.

True

If I am caught plagiarizing, I can be expelled from the university.

True

If you're not sure whether you need a citation for information in your work, you should include a citation

True

In addition to primary sources, historians also use the work of other historians to understand historical events

True

It is possible to use too many quotations

True

Only socially stratified societies have accomplished complex architectural and engineering feats such as China's Grand Canal.

True

Only socially stratified societies have accomplished complex architectural and engineering feats such as the Pyramids of Giza.

True

Plagiarism is presenting someone else's work, including words, ideas, or material, as your own.

True

The Maya made land suitable for agriculture by altering the landscape of a climate otherwise too wet to grow crops, while the Hohokam used irrigation techniques to contend with a climate otherwise too dry to grow crops.

True

The following illustration is indicative of a socially stratified society. (Chinese painting of a market)

True

This image shows the Standard of Ur from Bronze Age Mesopotamia. The scenes depicted on this panel reflect a socially-complex society that knows how to build and use cities.

True

This is an example of common knowledge: The sky is blue.

True

This record of wages paid to supervisors of day laborers was created by a socially stratified culture with cities.

True

You must always include a citation in the text of your paper for paraphrased or summarized information.

True

The presence of a highly developed and organized water management system is a characteristic of a socially stratified society.

true

Popular resources are

written by journalists for the general public

Which of these is a scholarly (secondary) source?

"Beyond the City: Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty in Rural America" in the Journal of Policy History

If there is no date of publication for the source, you should put which of these in the citation.

"n.d." which means no date

Popular Resources are

All of the above

Ancient societies could only develop next to rivers, since they needed a fresh water supply.

False

Citations and references are the same thing.

False

Citing sources in the text of your work is optional.

False

Common knowledge is anything that you knew when you started the course

False

Scholarly (secondary) sources are reviewed by editors to look for spelling and grammar errors but the information contained in them is not reviewed for reliability.

False

Students are not required to include a reference list with your assignments.

False

The structures at this ancient site in the Indus Valley were built by an egalitarian society.

False

This is an example of common knowledge: President Lyndon B. Johnson was a public school teacher in South Texas when he was a young man and that experience continued to influence his views throughout his life.

False

Standing armies are an integral feature of egalitarian societies.

Flase

Archaeologists and historians who study burial sites frequently examine tomb artifacts to help determine social stratification. If you discovered the artifacts below in two separate graves, which burial site [A or B] do you think belonged to a high-ranking person within that society?

Golden Crown (antlered Gazelles)

Copy and pasting text from the internet into an assignment without giving appropriate credit is

a type of plagiarism.

Ancient societies needed to manage water supplies for which of the following reasons?

all of the above

Citations must appear in the text of your paper for which of these:

all of the above

For quoted material, you should

all of the above

Over time, irrigated farmland could suffer from

all of the above

When interpreting primary sources, historians

all of the above

Examples of primary sources are

all the above

A magazine article written in 2005 about the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire is a primary source.

false

An explanation of life in the 1890s found on an educational website is a primary source.

false

Primary sources are completely accurate and should not be questioned.

false

The Achaemenids relied on aqueducts to transport water to their cities.

false

The folly of Jim Crow: Rethinking the segregated South, which is a collection of writings by professional historians and was published by Texas A&M University Press is an example of a popular resource.

false

Scholarly (secondary) sources often do not contain

informal language

Peer reviewed means that the article was reviewed by the author's peers (other scholars) to ensure that the information is reliable and worthy of publication.

true

The four most common types of plagiarism are

paraphrasing without citation, submitting others' work, copy-pasting, and fabrication.

Using a paper, discussion board post, or answer for a quiz that you find on the internet is,

plagiarism and never acceptable

Amy is having a hard time figuring out what to write for this week's discussion board so she takes a few minutes to read over what other students wrote. She sees that one of her classmates has written a great post that really sums up what she wants to say so she copy and pastes a few sentences from her classmate's post into her own. This is,

plagiarism because she has submitted another student's work as her own

First-hand accounts

reflect the experience and perspective of that individual

Ancient water machines include all of the following, EXCEPT:

steam-powered well drill

Fabrication is

submitting an assignment that contains made up sources or information.

Which of these are NOT examples of a first-hand account?

tax documents

Which of the following is NOT an example of a primary source?

the course textbook

The Grand Canal in China was primarilyused for

transporting goods between major cities

Historians use primary sources to build on the work of other historians.

true

Scholarly (secondary) sources are often peer reviewed.

true


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