SS3A - Quiz Compilation Study Guide
According to the APA citation system, which type of in-text citation would be required following this passage? Hollingshead was the first researcher to call attention to the growing epidemic of Chinchilla rustling in Peru and Chile, calling for a global effort to document the origins of all pet and hobby sales of these cute, but also important members of their native ecosystems [what goes here?].
(2003, p.21)
To exclude a term or expression from a Google Search query and limit results to pages that do not contain that term, you should place which operator before the term or expression.
- (a minus sign)
According to the Story of Search, about how many questions are asked (or characteristics measured) about each page that is indexed in order to assist in the ranking of pages?
100-999
When evaluating a source for possible inclusion in a research project or paper, skimming is strongly recommended. Place the following sections in the order recommended when skimming a source that is an online article for relevance. A. Skim the abstract B. Skim the introduction and conclusion C. Skim the bibliography for titles relevant to your topic D. Use CTRL-F or a similar function to search the article for your target keywords E. Skim for section headings
A --> B --> D --> E --> C
FILL-IN: When deciding which information from a source is worth including in your notes, it can be helpful to think about your notes as ____________.
A map highlighting key places
FILL-IN: Booth et al. (2016) would label the general starting place for your research report _______.
A research topic
Which of the following was NOT recommended this week as an excellent source of initial research questions? 1Personal Experience 2Social Problems 3Popular Press Articles 4Disciplinary or Field Problems 5A survey of ones peers and friends
A survey of ones peers and friends
Put these basic steps in producing Google results in the correct order: A: crawling the web B: indexing the web C: algorithms select best results to match search query D: things like ads are selected and mixed with results E: user responses recorded to improve future results
A-->B-->C-->D-->E
[Archive.org]. While time-filtering can be a really useful tool on Google, it is not flawless. Another powerful tool for looking back at web-based content over time is Archive.org (Links to an external site.). Let's use the "Wayback Machine" tool there to visit the ealiest release of a little website called Facebook.com. While facebook launched in 2004, it did not actually start out with the domain www.facebook.com (Links to an external site.). Using the Wayback Machine, find the name of the company that originally owned this web address (domain name) before Facebook acquired it in August 2005.
Aboutface Media
Which of the following is a reason to learn the valuable skill of paraphrasing? 1.You can adjust the language of a passage to match the rest of your paper while keeping the important information 2.You can avoid "over-quoting" - making your paper a string of other people's words rather than your own 3.You will understand the original material better if you take the time to put it into your own words 4.You can avoid many of the most common forms of "accidental" plagiarism by paraphrasing to begin with
All of the Above
Which of the following terms can be used as a synonym for Primary Sources in the Social Sciences?
All of the Above
For which of the following reasons do Booth et al. (2016) recommend a student read secondary sources when just starting out on a new research project?
All of the above
Which of the following methods can be used to search for an image of a horse using Google Image search?
All of the above
Which of the following examples from the Craft of Research is considered plagiarism by its authors? 1.Quoting, paraphrasing, or summarizing a source but failing to cite it 2.Borrowing ideas or methods from a source without citing it 3.Including a direct quote from a source with a citation but failing to put quotation marks around it (or make it a block quote) 4.Paraphrasing and citing a source but doing a poor job of it so that most of the original words are still the same
All of the above are plagiarism according to the authors
Which of the following methods is NOT recommended by Booth et al. (2016) when attempting to find specific resources to support an argument or claim. 1.Searching the online catalog at your library 2.Walking around in the stacks of paper books at the library 3.Locating reference sections in related articles and following these references 4.Using online citation indexes that track other articles citing the current one 5. All these options are recommended
All these options are recommended
FILL-IN: One helpful suggestion that is offered to better understand the mindset of researchers when taking notes is to think like _____________ (rather than like a student).
An archivist
[Google Image Search, Basic Search]. What does this image depict? Pretty cool, right? When you have figured out the answer to this first question, determine who is the lead author on the recent paper that announced a major breakthrough in which whatever this image is was announced to the world.
Arne Laucht
How many "plans" should a researcher have, according to Booth et al. (2016)?
As many as needed
FILL-IN: 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
Booth et al. recommend that when reading a journal article that may be related to your research, that you skim first. Which section or part do they suggest that you finish with (before deciding to read the entire article)?
Bibliography
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) claims that active regeneration of cell tissue following severe burns is not only possible, but will be "the norm" in under a decade's time thanks to the latest advances in stem cell and other cutting-edge therapies (p. 11). Option B: Active regeneration of cell tissue following severe burns is not only possible, but will be "the norm" in under a decade's time thanks to the latest advances in stem cell and other cutting-edge therapies (Liu, 2017, p. 11).
Both A and B
Read the following two descriptions of the process used by two students to arrive at a suitable research question and then answer that question. You'll be asked to evaluate these two approaches after reading them. Jose: Jose did not start with a question. Instead, he spent some time searching online to locate a specific, high-quality dataset that was collected by a previous group of researchers. He then looked at the social behaviors and characteristics that were measured for each person in that study and realized that he could answer several new, interesting questions about human behavior using this existing data by simply applying the same existing methods to these new questions. Therefore, he formulated his research question and design based upon the knowledge that the data already existed and further asked the question in such a way that the results would be interesting and important no matter what the specific answer to his question was. This ensured that he would be able to easily write a solid report at the end of his research process, which he did. Kim: Kim became very passionate about a particular question that she first encountered during a elective course she took in the humanities. She set out to find an answer this question without any clear sense about what research (if any) had already been done to answer it, what approach she might use to answer it, or whether the question was for certain even answerable using existing social science research methods in her major field of study. Nevertheless, Kim followed through, and with considerable effort was able to produce an original research project that provided an answer at least one specific aspect of her original "big question". Which researcher is going about their research in the "right way"?
Both approaches can yield important contributions, so there are no losers here. -There are no requirements about where such questions originate.
Put the following online research strategies in order from most efficient to least efficient as described in the lecture material for this week:
C --> B --> A
Which of the following was NOT found among the reasons given for taking research notes? A.To record your own reactions to the material B.To improve your understanding of material C.To organize your own thinking on To make a record of all information encountered D.To centralize information about a topic in one place
C.To organize your own thinking on To make a record of all information encountered
Due to the fact that much research is collaborative, which of the following become especially important skills for researchers to master?
Communication and Writing
Which of the following methods is NOT recommended by Booth et al. (2016) when attempting to select and begin a research project.
Conduct a general Google Search
According to the APA citation system, which type of in-text citation would be required following this passage? According to one tongue-in-cheek review, if we were to take the on-camera persona known as Stephen Colbert literally when warning us of danger, we would all have spent most of the decade of the 2000s cowering in our homes, door barred, for fear of angering those voracious killing machines known more commonly as bears [what goes here?].
Connors and Guilkey, 2015)
Juanicia has determined that a research article she is reading is highly relevant to her research question and also very reliable. What is the very first thing that she should do next, according to Booth et al. (2016).
Copy the complete bibliographic data for the article into your notes
When evaluating a source for possible inclusion in a research project or paper, skimming is strongly recommended. Place the following sections in the order recommended when skimming a source that is a book for relevance. A. Skim the bibliography for titles relevant to your topic B. Skim the concluding chapter C. Skim the first and last paragraphs of each chapter D. Skim the index for your keywords E. Skim prologues, introductions, and summary chapters
D --> C --> E --> B --> A
TRUE/FALSE: A limitation of Zotero and BMS like it is that it can handle websites, but does not support 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: Google Books and Google Scholar provide access to the same indexed content, one is just the old name.
False
TRUE/FALSE: Google will "crawl" a webpage and add it to its massive index regardless of whether that page's owner want the information indexed or not.
False
TRUE/FALSE: If Regina wants to obtain information about social anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss using a general search engine like Google, she had better spell his name correctly because Google would fail to correctly recognize and process the mis-spelled query Cluade Levi-Struass.
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
TRUE/FALSE: The search query "Best Badminton Players" (in quotes) will produce identical Google search results as Best Badminton Players (without the quotation marks).
False
TRUE/FALSE: The search query Apple NOT fruit will produce the same search results as the query Apple -fruit in a Google Search.
False
TRUE/FALSE: The search query a bakers dozen will produce identical Google search results as the query a dozen bakers.
False
TRUE/FALSE: The search query a fly will produce the same Google search results as the query the fly because these small words are automatically ignored.
False
TRUE/FALSE: When it comes to evaluating the reliability of a potential source, there are few good indicators, so one must rely mostly on "instinct".
False
TRUE/FALSE: because pages are hand-checked before they are added to the main Google index, this is a commercial search engine's biggest expense when providing search results.
False
All of the following topics are addressed in Chapter 5 with the exception of which one?
How to incorporate sources into writing your report
According to Booth et al. (2016) which of the following items are needed before one can start looking efficiently for data, ideas, and information to test a claim? I. A clear question II. At least one promising answer or hypothesis III. A plan for how to proceed I, II, and III
I, II, and III
Suppose Alphonso reads the following paragraph in the introduction to a 2017 online article by an author named David Silverfield about global population: By 2050, projections of global population range widely, from those predicting runaway population growth into the 100s of billions or even trillions, to the pessimists who predict a collapse and decline even below current population estimates of over 7 billion. Many more reasonable estimates lie in between, but nearly all serious scholars agree to one point - it is vital when making any sort of projection to clearly lay out the assumptions that underlie the model or prediction. On this score, more recent (and generally more modest) projections appear stronger than some of the most alarming projections of thirty and forty years ago during the height of the first great "overpopulation crisis" in demography. Which of the following would be the best set of research notes on this one paragraph, according to the standards discussed in the videos for today?
In this introduction, Silverfield (2017) calls attention to the way in which projections of population are sensitive to the assumptions that they rest upon, noting that more recent projections do a much better job at identifying and reporting these assumptions. This gives an advantage to these projections over older ones that also tend to range more widely (1).
Which term below best describes the APA style citation system?
It is an Author-date style
[Google Image Search]. The tiny image below portrays a familiar scene for most of us: a lecture. Many have remarked on the fact that one of the students in this Medieval painting is sound asleep. Suppose you want to learn more about the history of this image. Who is the artist who is credited with having painted the color version of this image on Parchment? Tip: Filtering the image by license, size, and time can often help you find a version of the file that is hosted on a credible site (one that will also supply background information like the artist's name)
Laurentius de Voltolina
What solution do Booth et al. put forward as the "antidote" or countermeasure to the flood of information (some good, some bad) that we encounter on the internet, TV, and elsewhere?
Learn to accurately judge the research of others and value clearly reported findings
Bubbl.us is an online app that enables a person to create ____________.
Mind Maps
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
Which of the following would be described as a BAD or ineffective role to assume when writing a research report?
My role is to show you how many facts I have dug up
[Basic Search]. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, to what does the word "Marginalia" refer?
Notes, commentary, and similar material written or printed in the margin of a book or manuscript.
[Google Trends.] Review a general description of how the data summarized with Google Trends are collected so that you understand what this tool can tell you. Then we will be using Google Trends to explore the history of searches for the following single word: Ebola. If you do not know what the word Ebola means, please look up a general definition before continuing. Worldwide, since 2004 (the beginning of available data), during which single month was interest in the word Ebola the greatest?
October 2014
FILL-IN: When discussing the ways in which different research fields utilize sources to construct arguments, Booth et al. (2016) observe that _________ fields use primary resources and __________ fields use secondary resources.
Only some | All
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
Suppose one of your classmates is having difficulty in the final weeks of this course with connecting a research claim to specific evidence in a research report. Which section of The Craft of Research would be best to suggest to that student for review?
Part III: Making an Argument "The elements of an argument (claim, reasons, evidence, warrant, acknowledgements and responses) are described in detail in Part III of the book."
Suppose one of your classmates is having difficulty in the final weeks of this course with writing an effective introduction to a research report. Which section of The Craft of Research would be best to suggest to that student for review?
Part IV: Writing Your Argument
There is an old saying, "There is no such thing as a free lunch." Which of the following is one of the ways that Google brings in revenue to help fund the cost of indexing the entire World Wide Web and delivering search results to billions of users for no charge?
Placing paid advertisements at the top and side of search results
Classify the following source according to the 3 type system presented in Booth et al.: An article from Wikipedia on the History of Video Games used in a paper that investigates whether female contributors to the development of video games are fairly represented in the references and descriptions found on Wikipedia
Primary Source
Pretend you are asked to give feedback to a classmate about their first attempt at formulating a research question for the project in this course. Which of the following proposed research questions would be the worst example of a research question that ties together the two major themes of this course?
Privacy and Ethics: Is it legal and just for the Federal Government to use military drone technology to perform surveillance on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil?
There are many different lists and frameworks that can be used when evaluating the quality or credibility of a potential source. In the very-much simplified system presented by Booth et al. (2016), there are just two major criteria. What are they?
Relevance and Reliability
According to your textbook authors, which of the following tasks are considered necessary to become an expert researcher? Group of answer choices
Reporting information clearly and accurately, Finding Information, Evaluating information, and Using the research of others
When refining ideas about research, the most typical pattern followed by most researchers is which of the following?
Research Topic --> Research Question --> Research Claim
Classify the following source according to the 3 type system presented in Booth et al.: A peer-reviewed article that summarizes what is known about a research area and puts forward a new set of questions to advance research
Secondary Source
Examine the two sets of possible Search queries below and determine which set(s) will produce similar results. Set 1 draft a report draft in wartime draft NCAA players draft beer clubs Set 2 write a report draft a report compose a report produce a report
Set 2 (only) will produce similar page results
Read the following block quote from Chapter 1 in Booth et al. (2016). Then identify the statement that would most benefit from supporting evidence if it is to accepted as fact. In considering, think about which statements could be supported by evidence, and which are hard to believe at face value. Teachers at all levels devote their lives to research (#1). Governments spend billions on it, businesses even more (#2). Research goes on in laboratories and libraries, in jungles and ocean depths, in caves and in outer space, in offices and, in the information age, even in our own homes (#3). Research is in fact the world's biggest industry (#4). Those who cannot do it well or evaluate that of others will find themselves sidelined in a world increasingly dependent on sound ideas based on good information produced by trustworthy inquiry and then presented clearly and accurately (#5). (Booth et al. 2016: 9)
Statement #4
Which of the paraphrases below plagiarizes the following paragraph from Malcolm 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: 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 (example: it will include a box for the URL if you select "Website" as the document type).
TRUE
TRUE/FALSE: When you conduct a Google Search you are actually searching Google's index of the web, not the web itself.
TRUE
What is suggested as a good three-word answer to the question, "what can I do to avoid accidentally plagiarizing the work of another?"
Take great notes
Classify the following source according to the 3 type system presented in Booth et al.: An article from Wikipedia on the History of Video Games used in a paper on the consequences of video gaming for young children
Tertiary Source
[Google Books]. According to chapter 1 of the book Marginalia by H.J. Jackson, during which time period did a new competitor to marginalia arise, called the footnote?
The 18th Century
According to "The Story of Search," how will the word jams be treated in the following search queries? Query 1: 405 highway rush hour traffic jams Query 2: Best old school R & B jams Query 3: How to treat finger jams Query 4: bottles for preserving jams
The Google synonym system will attempt to interpret which meaning you intend using context clues like the other words in the search
Fill-In the Blank: Booth et al. (2016) state that the question(s) you ask have an important impact on _______.
The new information obtained & Subsequent questions asked
According to The Story of Search, the owner of a website has what sort of control over its potential inclusion in Search results?
The owner can provide instructions about which pages to include or exclude
A student who is researching the "literature" on what is known about search algorithms and their relationship to the free spread of information reads an important secondary source that refers heavily to a primary source. The primary source is available online for no charge. Which source should the student borrow evidence from when building her own original arguments in a research paper?
The primary source
When reading a source at an early stage of the research process, the following suggestions could be helpful. Which general purpose in reading do they potentially help with? ~Look for claims that require additional support ~Look for claims that contain contradictions ~Look for claims that make causal mistakes or misstate the history of an idea
These are ways to read for a problem
When reading a source at an early stage of the research process, the following suggestions could be helpful. Which general purpose in reading do they potentially help with? ~Look for claims that are begging for a response to some predictable disagreement ~Look for patterns in the way that reasoning is developed or explained ~Look for a set of arguments to model your own research paper on
These are ways to read for an argument
When searching for information on the book entitled Crime and Punishment, which of the following Google search queries would return information on the book as the first result?
These queries would all produce the same first result
FILL-IN: According to Booth et al., learning to do research is most like ________.
Training for a sport (skills can fade with disuse and may not transfer to other "sports") **When a researcher does not actively use their research skills, those skills can fade, and when a researcher picks up a new area of research, it can return them to the status of a novice, especially if the new topic is unlike anything they have previously researched.
FILL-IN: 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
TRUE/FALSE: A "peer reviewed" resource is one that has undergone a careful evaluation by experts in that research field prior to publication.
True
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: Evernote provides users with most of the basic formatting and organizational tools available in a standard Word Processing program (examples: change fonts, change the color of text, indent, bold, italicize, and on).
True
TRUE/FALSE: Google attempts to filter out search spam from its results using automated algorithms (spam is unwanted web content that attempts to trick users into visiting a page).
True
TRUE/FALSE: Hundreds of factors are considered by Google's algorithms when ranking a page's relevance and deciding which results to show a user.
True
TRUE/FALSE: If it applies to your search, a "specialized term" is useful in a targeted search because it is rarer than other search terms and produces a more selective set of search results.
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 Google Image Search, options for filtering image results include color, size, and file type, making it possible to search for a large black and white clipart image of a church, for example.
True
TRUE/FALSE: In Google, the search query Tony Soprano (with capitalization) will produce the same search results as the search query tony soprano (all lowercase).
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: It is possible to limit the search results in Google to only show documents dated from before the year 2001.
True
TRUE/FALSE: Not all words and phrases are treated the same by Google; some like site: and filetype: will trigger a different set of search results or actions.
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: One of the most important skills in searching out information on the world wide web is knowing whether a general search engine like Google is the correct tool for your specific query.
True
TRUE/FALSE: The ZOT in the name Zotero is a coincidence and has nothing to do with UC Irvine's own system of ZOT mail, ZOT portal, etc.
True
TRUE/FALSE: There are many different models or representations of the ideal research process, but most share the same major elements.
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 correct information supplied, Zotero can automatically produce a complete works cited page or similar references list that conforms to the requirements of the APA citation system.
True
TRUE/FALSE: changing the focus of your research paper and the question being asked can result in the reclassification of sources from secondary to primary, tertiary to secondary, and so on.
True
TRUE/FALSE: with Zotero and similar web-based BMS, it is possible to create and share citations with others working from anywhere.
True
For certain sections of a research report, a large volume of the information that is included comes from other sources and must be paraphrased, since convention states that direct quotes are to be used sparingly, if at all. When is the best time in the course of doing research to begin putting information and ideas into your own words, or paraphrasing?
When you first takes notes on a source
FILL-IN: Booth and his co-authors go to great lengths to argue that writing serves many purposes, among them: 1.) Writing helps us remember information 2.) Writing helps us understand a topic better 3. _____???_____
Writing helps us test our thinking about a subject
After writing a first draft of a research paper, Raylene determines that she doesn't actually know as much about inheritance law and trusts as she initially thought, forcing her to go back and do much additional studying and research. This would be considered an illustration of which purpose of writing listed n pages 11-12.
Writing to Test One's Thinking "Back to the drawing board"
After writing a first draft of a research paper, Josie realizes that her initial approach to organizing her thoughts on the topic was messy and confusing, but sees that by moving some paragraphs around, the argument can be made much clearer. This would be considered an illustration of which purpose of writing listed n pages 11-12.
Writing to Understand "Writing allows us, among many other benefits, to see patterns, connections, and other elements of organization, and to focus on different sections one at a time."
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". Original: "You paraphrase appropriately when you represent an idea in your own words more clearly or pointedly than the source does. But readers will think that you plagiarize if they can match your words and phrasing with those of your source" (Booth et al. 2008, p. 194). Sample Paraphrase: "According to Booth, Colomb, and Williams (2008), paraphrase is the use of your own words to represent the ideas of another more clearly. It becomes plagiarism when readers see a word-for-word similarity between a paraphrase and a source." (p. 194).
Yes, this paraphrasing is acceptable
FILL-IN: According to Booth et al. (2016), the volume and proliferation of information and data across the internet has resulted in libraries being __________.
more important
FILL-IN: One of the most common and best suggestions for good paraphrasing is to read the passage you are interested in and then ________________________________.
put the actual text out of sight before attempting to paraphrase it
