Exam 14: Using Research to Strengthen Essays

Arrange the following sources in the correct MLA format for a Works Cited entry. -Print Book Publisher: Crown Author: Mindy Kaling Title: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) Year: 2011

Paraphrase each of the following short excerpts and include the appropriate parenthetical documentation. Use a signal phrase in each of the excerpts you paraphrase. -"Most Americans eat great quantities of food frequently, based on convenience. In fact, the entire fast-food and TV dinner industries have flourished due to our fast-paced lifestyles that demand we eat 'convenient' foods." (from The Maker's Diet, by Jordan S. Rubin, page 31)

Arrange the following sources in the correct APA format for a references list entry. -Print book Title: The homework myth: Why our kids get too much of a bad thing Edition number: 2 Year published: 2006 City where published: Cambridge, Massachusetts Publisher: Da Capo Press Author: Alfie Kohn

Arrange the following sources in the correct APA format for a references list entry. -Web Journal article Database used: EBSCOhost Journal: Children and Youth Services Review Article Title: "Advice from teens to teens about dating: Implications for healthy relationships" Volume: 33 Issue number: 2 Year published: 2011 Pages: 254-264 Authors: Heidi L. Adams and Lela Rankin Williams ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________

Arrange the following sources in the correct MLA format for a Works Cited entry. -Print magazine article (from a weekly publication) Article Title: "In with the New: Cubism at the Metropolitan Museum" Author: Peter Schjeldahl Magazine: The New Yorker Pages: 78-79 Date: October 27 Year: 2014

Which of the following is not a signal phrase?

When conducting research using the Internet, students often forget to check sources for _____.

Arrange the following sources in the correct MLA format for a Works Cited entry. -Print journal article Journal: New England Review Article Title: "Sister in Russian, Cousin in English" Volume: 35 Issue Number: 5 Year Published: 2014 Pages: 114-125 Author: Natasha Lvovich

Paraphrase each of the following short excerpts and include the appropriate parenthetical documentation. Use a signal phrase in each of the excerpts you paraphrase. -"The increase in storm intensity in recent years has been tracked by the insurance industry which has been hit hard by recent disasters. Until the mid-1980s, it was widely thought that windstorms or hurricanes with insured losses exceeding one billion (thousand million) U.S. dollars were only possible, if at all, in the United States." (from Global Warming: The Complete Briefing, by John Houghton, page 4)

Paraphrase each of the following short excerpts and include the appropriate parenthetical documentation. Use a signal phrase in each of the excerpts you paraphrase. -"Despite the obstacles, some Americans manage to become financially independent each year without the state lottery, casinos, a big inheritance, or a successful business or invention. How? The answer, quite simply, is planning." (from Saving on a Shoestring: How to Cut Expenses Reduce Debt and Stash More Cash, by Barbara O'Neill, page 11)

Paraphrase each of the following short excerpts and include the appropriate parenthetical documentation. Use a signal phrase in each of the excerpts you paraphrase. -"Indeed your chances of really getting where you want to go in life often hinge on your reaction to some shattering setback. Will you give up or will you keep on trying? It's as simple as that. And what you decide, decides your future." (from You Can If You Think You Can, by Norman Vincent Peale, page 4)

_____ occurs when you use a source's words or ideas and fail to give proper credit to the author or source of the work.

When you provide documentation within a research essay, you are using ____.

At the end of a documented essay, the ____ page lists all the sources cited in a paper.

Which of the following is not a research source in a college library?

Paraphrase each of the following short excerpts and include the appropriate parenthetical documentation. Use a signal phrase in each of the excerpts you paraphrase. -"Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions." (from You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, by Deborah Tannen, page 26)

Arrange the following sources in the correct MLA format for a Works Cited entry. -Print newspaper article Newspaper: New York Times Article Title: "Mexico Arrests Ex-Chief of Antidrug Agency" Date: November 22, 2008 Page: A6 Author: Elisabeth Malkin