Exam 10: Finding and Evaluating Business Information

At your company a number of routine office tasks are loosely shared among entry-level employees, who perform these duties in addition to their specific job descriptions. This often results in tasks being done late, poorly, or not at all. You suggest to your boss that outsourcing this work might be a good idea. He is interested and asks you to research and recommend a service provider. -Which of the following is an example of a primary source?

Which of the following performs federated searches?

While face-to-face surveys increase the likelihood that participants will respond because of personal contact, they are time-consuming to conduct.

When you type into a basic search engine like Google, Bing, or Yahoo, the sites that appear at the top or on the side of the results page are usually ________.

All of the following are ways to reduce the number of results in a web search EXCEPT ________.

Why is using general search engines not as easy as it seems?

Your supervisor recently expressed disappointment that no one in your department was participating in the company's new volunteer initiative, which encourages employees to "adopt" causes they care about and donate time and resources to help them. You decide to research some options-including a mentoring program at a local high school and a recreational centre at a nearby seniors' facility-so you can discuss them with your team and hopefully convince them to join the program with you. In this case, your primary audience is ________.

At your company a number of routine office tasks are loosely shared among entry-level employees, who perform these duties in addition to their specific job descriptions. This often results in tasks being done late, poorly, or not at all. You suggest to your boss that outsourcing this work might be a good idea. He is interested and asks you to research and recommend a service provider. -Which of the following best articulates the research question you have been asked to explore?

Searching through which of the following would likely yield the narrowest search results?

The amount and kind of research you conduct are crucial to good data gathering, but so are the ways in which you organize the research to share with others.

Considering whether any web links are broken is involved with evaluating the source's ________.

Ali's boss asks him to track down some books for their team's research project that can be consulted without purchase. Of the following, which would be the most likely place Ali should look?

You need to determine the steps that you will take to answer your research questions. Which of the following research activities best correlates with the research question, "What non-financial drawbacks are there to outsourcing?"

The ________ is the number that appears most frequently in a distribution.

Which of the following questions is NOT used to identify audience concerns and needs?

Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding finding research that contradicts your position?

You work in a small office of fewer than 20 employees that has no dedicated IT staff. As the resident tech expert, you are called on to deal with computer issues and tech-related decisions. Lately this has been taking up more of your time and you feel it is no longer an efficient arrangement. You speak to your boss about contracting with an IT company to oversee these needs, and she tells you to research some options. -You find a website with some interesting information about your topic. The author is a well-known expert in the field. There is some useful data, for which the author has taken care to provide citations. There are also some promising looking links, but when you click on them they are broken. You check the last-updated date and see that it is almost a year ago. What is your evaluation of this source?

Discuss being an ethical researcher in terms of evaluating your sources.

Articulate the research question presented to you by your boss and discuss why you might need to broaden or narrow it.

Before doing in-depth research to explore your research questions, it is important to understand your general topic.