Deck 4: You Could Look It Up: Reading, Recording, and Reviewing Research

Question 1

A thorough review of the communication research literature will help you with which of the following?

A) participant recruitment
B) financial backing
C) language and style
D) other methods of citation

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which of the following will help you decide if a website is publishing scholarly credible information?

A) how quickly it loads
B) information about how page content is accepted or rejected
C) absence of contact information
E) the web page color

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of the following will help you decide whether a research report has scholarly credibility?

A) author's credentials
B) publication city
C) length
D) citation style

Answer 3

A

Question 4

AND, OR, and NOT are called ______ operators.

A) logarithmic
B) Bodleian
C) Boolean
D) numeric

Question 5

A "search term" and a "search field" are the same.

Question 6

A good literature review will assist you in choosing a method that is appropriate for your study.

Question 7

Researchers should be familiar with Library of Congress Subject Headings (LOCSH) because ______.

A) it is a federal requirement for research
B) the headings provide official spelling for search terms
C) the headings give you a variety of different search terms for the same topic
D) the headings show you how to format a paper

Question 8

A document object identifier (doi) is a permanent Internet identification for a document.

Question 9

Finding relevant information in communication research is dependent on using appropriate search terms.

Question 10

What does APA, the style used in writing up much communication research, stand for?

A) American Publishers Association
B) American Philosophical Association
C) American Psychological Association
D) Academic Publishing Association

Question 11

In searching the scholarly literature, "relevance" and "quality" mean the same.

Question 12

Which of the following are all Boolean operators?

A) and, or, then
B) and, or, when
C) and, or, not
D) or, then, when

Question 13

"Relevance" and "quality" are two goals of a literature search for your study.

Question 14

Which of the following details come first in a citation of a journal article in your scholarly writing?

A) author names
B) date of publication and volume and issue number of the journal
C) page numbers
D) title of journal article

Question 15

A good literature review can help ensure your research study is ethical.

Question 16

In bibliographic research, what do the letters "doi" stand for?

A) document object identifier
B) document object information
C) digital object identifier
D) digital object information

Question 17

Scholarly publication articles are peer-reviewed and use citations.

Question 18

Which of the following is TRUE of a scholarly article?

A) It is refereed.
B) It is in weekly media.
C) It is targeted to a lay audience.
D) It is found in a newspaper.

Question 19

Styles commonly used for formatting communication research papers include ______.

A) APA, MLA, and ALA
B) APA, MLA, and New York
C) APA, MLA, and Chicago
D) APA, MBA, and New York

Question 20

You should do research without first seeing what other researchers have done in your field.

Question 21

Peer-reviewed and refereed journal articles are the same.

Question 22

It is useful to know the criteria by which a website accepts or rejects articles.

Question 23

It is not necessary to record the complete bibliographic information when doing a literature search.

Question 24

Journals with a low impact factor are seen as influential in their field.

Question 25

A good way to determine credibility of a website is to treat it like a book or journal article: know who wrote it, their credentials, and who published it.

Question 26

A pro-con argument is useful for structuring the literature when academics don't agree about the topic.

Question 27

A good literature review includes summary, synthesis, analysis, and critique.

Question 28

The impact factors of a journal measure the number of times those articles are cited by other researchers.

Question 29

One way to review literature includes treating it like journalism-asking questions of who, what, where, when, why, and how.

Question 30

The American Psychological Association (APA) style is the most common citation style in the social sciences.

Question 31

Catalogs, dictionaries, and handbooks can be useful resources as you search the literature.

Question 32

Since databases are specialized by content, you can often focus your literature search by which database you choose.

Question 33

Peer-reviewed articles are likely to be high-quality studies.

Question 34

Chicago style is the most common citation style in the social sciences.

Question 35

Research results from database searches are generally highly credible.

Question 36

Citation management software can help keep a researcher organized by interfacing with library databases.

Question 37

Using the search term "communication" is often useful in literature searches in communication research.

Question 38

Scholarly databases have more sophisticated interfaces than search engines do.

Question 39

A literature review is just a summary of relevant, quality literature in your research area.

Question 40

Books and journals published by a university press are unbiased.

Question 41

What are advantages to reading others' research before beginning your own?

Question 42

Reading research will assist you in developing your research writing skills.

Question 43

The impact factor of a journal is more important than the relevance of the article to your study.

Question 44

Scholarly articles include citations at the end of the article.

Question 45

Explain with examples the difference between primary and secondary sources.

Question 46

How do you determine what qualifies as quality information in your literature search?

Question 47

Explain the difference between the concepts of "relevant information" and "quality information."

Question 48

Explain what is meant by popular articles and trade publications, and how they differ from scholarly journal articles.

Question 49

Identify one example of a database and one example of a search engine and explain the differences between them.

Question 50

What questions you would ask to determine if a book or journal was written to scholarly standards? Why would asking these questions be important?

Question 51

Google and Bing are examples of search engines.

Question 52

Communication & Mass Media Complete is an example of a search engine.

Question 53

Why is it important to accurately cite articles and resources you use in your literature review?

Question 54

Why is it useful to record the method and results of the literature you find?

Question 55

One useful way to find a "breakthrough" paper that clarifies concepts is to do a thorough, systematic search.

Question 56

Popular articles are published without a peer-review process.