Module 2 + Software Quizzes

According to the APA citation system, which type of in-text citation would be required following this passage?

(Connors and Guilkey, 2015)

Which of the following examples from the Craft of Research is considered plagiarism?

- Quoting, paraphrasing, or summarizing a source but failing to cite it - Borrowing ideas or methods from a source without citing it - Including a direct quote from a source with a citation but failing to put quotation marks around it (or make it a block quote) - Paraphrasing and citing a source but doing a poor job of it so that most of the original words are still the same

Which of the following is a reason to learn the valuable skill of paraphrasing?

- You can adjust the language of a passage to match the rest of your paper while keeping the important information - You can avoid "over-quoting" - making your paper a string of other people's words rather than your own - You will understand the original material better if you take the time to put it into your own words - You can avoid many of the most common forms of "accidental" plagiarism by paraphrasing to begin with

Suppose Alphonsa reads the following paragraph in the introduction to a 2017 online article by an author named David Silverfield about global population. What would be the best set of research notes on this paragraph, according to the standards discussed in the videos?

- paraphrase what the author says (say it in your own words) - include the author & year published - include the section it came from (ex: introduction) - include the page number (1)

Booth et al. (2016) would label the general starting place for your research report _____

A research topic

According to Booth et al. (2016) the right time to imagine your ideal, perspective reader and think about the role you want to assume as a writer is _____

Before you write the first word of your first draft

The acronym BMS is short for what?

Bibliographic Management Software

Which of the two sentences below is an acceptable way to attribute a source author when using the APA citation system? Option A: Liu (2017)... (p.11) Option B: ... (Liu, 2017, p.11)

Both A and B

TRUE/FALSE: A limitation of Zotero and BMS like it is that it can handle websites, but does not suppose the citing of traditional offline sources like books and magazines.

FALSE

TRUE/FALSE: Evernote is an example of a Bibliographic Management Software system that is designed primarily to let users store, format, and retrieve bibliographic information for their references

FALSE

TRUE/FALSE: The notes that one would take during a course to prepare for a final exam are similar in every major respect to the notes one would take during a research process to prepare for writing a research report

FALSE

Which of the following do Booth et al. consider to be the "worst mistake a researcher can make"?

Misleading a reader by portraying the ideas or words of another as one's own

When writing a research report Dr. Zizner includes the full set of three examples of a social phenomenon from a colleague's already published paper (the idea), but describes each in her own words. She includes a citation to the original work. Which word best describes what Dr. Zizner has done?

Paraphrasing

When refining ideas about research, the most typical pattern followed by most researchers is which of the following?

Research topic --> Research Question --> Research Claim

Which of the paraphrases below plagiarizes the following paragraph from Malcom Gladwell's book Outliers: The story of success? "Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play" (2008, p.38)

Success seems to depend on a combination of talent and preparation. However when psychologists closely examine the gifted and their careers, they discover that innate talent plays a much smaller role than preparation (Gladwell, 2008, p.38)

TRUE/FALSE: A critical step when planning to write a research report is to think about what your potential reader will want and what they would be willing to "put up with" in order to get it.

TRUE

TRUE/FALSE: Depending on which item type you select (book, chapter, website, etc.), Zotero will show you a customized set of fields appropriate for citing a resource of that type (ex: it will include a box for the URL if you select "Website" as the document type).

TRUE

TRUE/FALSE: Evernot provides users with most of the basic formatting and organizational tools available in a standard Word Processing program (ex: change fonts, change the color of text, indent, bold, italicize, and on).

TRUE

TRUE/FALSE: If you've written more than three bibliographies or works cited pages on similar topics in your academic career, you could save considerable time by creating a personal library of citations online for future reuse.

TRUE

TRUE/FALSE: In addition to creating folders as a means of organizing collections of notes, Evernote gives users the ability to tag notes with keywords to enhance organization.

TRUE

TRUE/FALSE: One major reason that we use Zotero in our class rather than other BMS is that it is free to sign up while many other BMS programs have fees

TRUE

TRUE/FALSE: When taking notes for research purposes, one must actively consider the possibility that those notes could be made public at some point in the future.

TRUE

TRUE/FALSE: When you take notes using a cloud-based or web-based application like Evernote, your files are safe, even if the computer you are working on is damaged or destroyed because at least 1 copy is stored remotely.

TRUE

TRUE/FALSE: with Zotero and similar web-based BMS, it is possible to create and share citations with others working from anywhere

TRUE

The act of recalling from where or how you know something, or how to find that information again (rather than recalling the information itself), is labelled: _____

Transactive Memory

Read the following two sentences from an older edition of your text and then judge whether the paraphrase that follows does an adequate job of rearranging the sentence structure and wording to "put it in your own words" "According to Booth, Colomb, and Williams (2008),... (p.194)"

Yes, this paraphrasing is acceptible

When deciding which information from a source's worth including in your notes, it can be helpful to think about your notes as _____

a map highlighted key places

which term below describes the APA style citation system?

it is an Author-date style