IT150G Final Exam

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The information cycle timeline indicates that journals and popular books are written _______________.

1 to 2 years after an event

________ refers to a source that is unbiased and can be verified by other sources.

Accuracy

In the "Deep Web" sources and search tools have been:

All of the above- reviewed, written & recommended by experts

Examples of sources for factual information are:

All of the above: Statistical compilations, encyclopedias, & almanacs

Which of the following are social media platforms?

All of these Blogs, Microblogs,

Creating a concept map allows an author to ________.

All of these Sort and refocus ideas, create a visual design of her/ his thinking, do free- thinking for developing research ideas

The ____ Google search operator allows you to locate pages with titles that contain all keywords.

Allintitle

The citation style that we will be using in this class is called ___________________.

American Psychological Association

________ show changes in ordered sequence or nominal data (e.g., names or forms).

Bar Charts

AND, OR, and NOT are ________ operators.

Boolean

Search engine use ________ logic, a special mathematical syntax, to perform complex searches.

Boolean

Information literacy is a set of abilities requiring individuals to recognize when information is needed, how to locate information, _____________.

C. all of these how to disseminate information how to use information ethically how to evaluate information

Ignoring indentations, which of the following is a correct APA reference for a book used in your work?

Calfee, R.C., & Valencia, R.R. (1991). APA guide to preparing manuscripts for journal publication. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

style guides that standardize how citations are written

Citation formats

Which action involves plagiarism?

Copy a phrase from an online article and paste it in your research paper without a citation

Which of the following is not an indicator of authority when deciding whether a source is appropriate for your needs?

Currency

The Information Cycle is dependent upon ________.

Curreny

The first step in creating an Internet search strategy is to ____.

Defind the topic

Which of the following indicates the proper steps to writing a research paper?

Discovering and narrowing a research topic Finding and selecting sources Writing the outline Writing the introduction, body and conclusion Revising the final draft

To restrict your search to Web pages stored on Web sites with dk as the top-level domain (the last part of the URL), you can restrict your search to the ________ exclusive to Denmark.

Domain

Subject guides focus your search toward more reliable or ____ resources.

Expert

Data includes ____________

Facts, observations, or notations

True or False "Approximately 80% of the information on the Web belongs to the Open Web."

False

True or False An In-Text Citation is the same as a Reference List.

False

True or False An annotated bibliography is the same thing as a bibliography.

False

True or False Phrase searching can usually be accomplished by putting brackets around the words that you want to appear together.

False

True or False The Open Web is very reliable because the sources have been reviewed and evaluated.

False

True or False The best time to use AND is when your initial search found too few results.

False

True or False The content of a scholarly resource is usually understandable by the lay person.

False

True or False This is a correct format to state the date in APA citations: for year and month ( 2010, Dec. ).

False

True or False You can use quotation marks around a group of keywords to control the order in which a query is processed by the search engine.

False

You can ____ the order of operations in a search by using parentheses.

Force

Subject guides are typically prepared by ____.

Hand

Information literacy is a set of abilities requiring individuals to recognize when information is needed, how to locate information, _____________.

How to evaluate information AND how to use information ethically

services that locate information on the Web

Internet Search Tools

____ are services to help you locate information on the Web.

Internet search tools

You are writing a paper on the "job market in USA". Which search strategy would find the least number of documents: ____________.

Job AND market AND USA

words that describe the major concepts of your search topic

Keywords

________ are useful to show changes in trends and continuous data. Points on the line are important for presenting exact values.

Line Graphs

____ allows you to use single search form to query multiple search engines simultaneously.

Meta-Search Engines

offer a single search form to query multiple search engines simultaneously

Metasearch engines

There are several methods of importing references into EndNote. For example, we can import references directly from _________ into EndNote.

ODU Library Databases

Use the Boolean operator ____ when trying to broaden a search.

OR

If the information is presented in few words, but the presentation is difficult to understand, then ________ can be best.

Paraphrasing

To find keywords in the correct order, you need to use ____.

Phrase Searching

To find keywords in the correct (specified) order, you need to use __________.

Phrase searching

A(n) _____________ information source is original, firsthand information. It hasn't been interpreted, analyzed, condensed, or changed.

Primary

________ refer to why the original source published the information.

Purpose

The scope and audience of your work is supported by the ________ of a cited source.

Relevance

Which is the best display tool to use when trying to show an association or correlation between two things.

Scatter diagram

Ignoring indentations, which of the following is a correct APA reference for an article retrieved from a newspaper?

Schultz, S. (2005, December 28). Calls made to strengthen state energy policies. The Country Today, pp. 1A, 2A.

tells the search tool specifically what information is needed

Search Query

locates Web pages that contain keywords you enter in a search form

Search engines

Ernest Hemingway wrote novels. Many scholars have analyzed these novels. These scholarly analyses are examples of _____________ source of information.

Secondary

Which of the following is not a benefit of properly citing sources in a paper?

Show that your theory comes up from your own idea.

Search engine ____ crawl the Web.

Spiders

programs that scan the Web for words to index

Spiders

Typical words that do not qualify as keywords are also known as ____.

Stop Words

____ return fewer results than search engines, but the results are more likely to be reliable and useful.

Subject Guides

organize subjects alphabetically and hierarchically

Subject Guides

__________ return fewer results than search engines, but the results are more likely to be reliable and useful.

Subject guides

_______________ information is one person's opinion. It can be based on fact, but it is one person's interpretation of that fact.

Subjective

If the information you need to include is in the form of both many words and complex or unclear words, then ________ can be a good choice.

Summarizing

Which of the following is true about continuous data?

They have an infinite number of steps that lead to a continuum

Attribute data is countable data or data that can be put into categories.

True

True or False A spider is a computer program used by a search engine that scans the web to index keywords.

True

True or False A subject guide might provide its lists of topics arranged in multiple ways, such as listing topics alphabetically, geographically, chronologically, or by the Dewey Decimal subject classification system.

True

True or False Each time you add OR to your search, you are expanding the search to include more Web pages.

True

True or False Each time you add the operator AND to your search, you are narrowing the search.

True

True or False Information Literacy is a set of abilities requiring individuals to "recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.

True

True or False Library databases are part of "Deep Web"

True

True or False Specialty search tools allow you to find information that is "invisible" to traditional search engines or subject guides.

True

True or False Subjective information is also analytical.

True

True or False The 5 W's of Journalism technique is used to refine your topic, by asking the questions who; what; when; where; and why

True

True or False The Internet is a global network of tens of thousands of computer networks; many applications use the Internet.

True

True or False The NOT boolean operator finds records which include one term but not the other.

True

True or False The Open Web is also referred to as the "Surface Web" or "Visible Web".

True

True or False The results from a subject guide are relevant and useful, but usually produce fewer results in comparison to a search engine.

True

True or False The world wide web (web) is one of the applications that use the Internet. It is an enormous repository of information, stored on millions of computers all over the world.

True

True or False Use AND to narrow your results

True

True or False Use OR to broaden your results

True

True or False You navigate or browse a subject guide primarily by "drilling down."

True

True or Flase The best display tool to use to show data with 40 or more measurements not necessarily in chronological order is the histogram.

True

The basic components of a web site citation are the author, web page title, date, and the ________.

URL

Which of the following is not an evaluation criterion to determine whether a web site is appropriate for your needs?

Utility

____ diagrams can help you decide which Boolean operators to use in a search strategy.

Venn

Which of the following was the first subject guide on the web?

WWW Virtual Library

Which of the following is not a key component of an APA reference entry?

Why= Purpose of Source

a repository of information stored on computers all over the world

World Wide Web

Which of the following is not true about summarizing a source?

You can include your own idea in the summary.

Which of the following is not a consequence when you don't cite sources propoerly?

You will get fines of up to $1,000.

An article about a painting by Claude Monet is ________.

a secondary source

mathematical formulas used by search engines

algorithms

Which type(s) of information require a citation?

all of the choices direct quotes paraphrasing images

Which of the following is true for qualitative data?

all of these qualitative data describes an object qualitative data is not numerically descriptive qualitative data describes a quality or characteristic of the data

Which of the following is not correct for a reference list entry in a paper?

appears within the work itself

Many academic databases, including Google Scholar, provide the Hirsch index. This refers to the productivity and ________ of a source.

authority

Two widely accepted _______ are those of the MLA and APA.

citation formats

Which of the following is not a proper classification in terms of the sequence to describe data?

continuous data

Clicking through topics and subtopics arranged hierarchically is known as "____."

drilling down

________________ information is usually brief. It gives indisputable answers to specific questions.

factual

You need to write a research paper about the development of the typewriter technologies. Which type of information should you consider?

historical

The phrase search: "bullying and teenagers", would find all records which _____________.

include both words

The phrase search: "bullying or teenagers", would find all records which_______________.

include either or both words

a vast global network of interconnected smaller networks

internet

The deep web ________

is not accessible by tradition search tools

Which of the following are not required for a standard APA in-text citation?

location of publication

If you initially know very little about the topic you are researching, look for general information first in any of the following except ________.

microblogs

Which of the following is an example of discrete data?

number of employees in a company

In the "Deep Web" you will find databases that are better-organized, updated, and ____________.

offer various advanced features

Web sites can come and go; not always stable and usually not archived. This can most likely happen in the ___________________.

open web

Data becomes information when it is organized _____

presentable and useful

Which of the following is correct for quantitative data?

quantitative data will reference 'how many' or 'how much'

If you use someone else's words exactly, be sure to use ________ and cite your source.

quotation marks

locates Web pages that are hidden from traditional search engines

specialty search tools

Encyclopedia's, bibliographies (citation list), databases, and indexes are all __________ sources which provide access to materials on specific topics.

tertiary

When evaluating a source to use in your work, currency refers to ________.

timeliness

The basic components of a book citation are: author, title, publisher, place of publication, and the ________.

year of publication


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