Exam 12: Finding, Evaluating, and Using Sources

Online databases and bibliographies are directional sources.

The class text recommends taking notes on a laptop or tablet, rather than on index cards.

Which of the following is NOT a directional source?

General encyclopedias are excellent starting points for finding information about a topic.

To illustrate how to paraphrase a passage, who among the following paraphrases a passage on reading and pursuing knowledge?

Which of the following is NOT an informational source?

Which of the following refers to a list of books that provides information, such as the name of the author, the title, the place and date of publication, the name of the publisher, and, in some cases, the price of the book, for each book on the list?

Research is assigned in college courses because _____.

Which of the following does NOT have to be acknowledged or documented?

The goal of a good paraphrase is _____.

To illustrate how to summarize an essay or argument, this chapter summarizes a legal case on _____.

A summary of an argument, essay, or article contains only the main idea or the claim and, depending on the purpose of the summary, the main premises or supporting points.

When evaluating informational sources, one should ask questions about _____.

Much of what we know and think does not have to be acknowledged or credited in our writing.

A writer is said to have committed plagiarism if he or she paraphrases material from an outside source with no acknowledgment of the source.

According to the text, plagiarism is wrong because _____.

When incorporating sources, which of the following should one do if a quotation amounts to more than four or five lines of type in a text?

_____ are natural language terms that describe a topic.

"Extraterrestrial life exists." This is _____.

A paraphrase is generally more detailed than a summary.