Exam 10: Planning, Researching, and Documenting Reports

It is unprofessional to talk to your readers before you begin writing or researching a report.

A good strategy for organizing report data is to present it in the order in which you became aware of it.

Providing in parentheses, within the text, the author's name and the source's date of publication is known as _____________ documentation.

Peter Nicholson, president of the Council of Canadian Academies, has criticized the internet for creating a "just-in-time approach" to research, and for "narrowing .... intellectual vision." Why does he, and others like him, make this kind of claim?

The __________ date is the date on which a Web site was last updated.

Which of the following BEST describes how you should paraphrase?

How does properly citing and documenting your sources benefit you as the writer of a report?

Explain how you could write a report on improving downtown parking in Toronto by using a) the comparison/contrast organizational pattern, b) the elimination of alternatives pattern, and c) the general to particular pattern.Feel free to invent any relevant details.

Describe the process of narrowing the scope of a problem statement such as "improving the work environment for medical service workers working abroad."

"Internal documentation" means that you list all your sources within the report in a section entitled "methods."

Moe is researching effective online advertising techniques for small businesses.He performs the following Boolean search: advertising and (online or web) and (small business).Which of the following options correctly describes the results that will be returned for him?

A report that records events in the order in which they occurred uses the _____________ organizational pattern.

When you ___________, you place a source's ideas in your own words, while still following the source's line of reasoning.

Canada has one of the best track records on access to information requests in the world.

When you evaluate a research source, you should consider its _________ by determining whether the data are consistent, making sure the research design tests the hypothesis, making sure the author is credible, and figuring out whether the sources it uses are unbiased.

You are creating questions for a survey on the writing problems of students on your campus.You initially hand out surveys to tutors in the writing centre.What is this kind of sample called?

An interview in which the interviewer has three or four main questions, and then builds the rest of his/her questions based on what the interviewee says, is known as the following kind of interview: ______________.

A _____ questions a large group of people; a _____ is a written list of questions that people fill out.

A _____ sample is a group of people whose views seems useful for your particular topic.

You should consider the credibility of the author when you decide whether to use a secondary source in your report.