Deck 14: Using Research to Strengthen Essays

Question 1

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

A) the online catalog
B) periodical indexes
C) Internet search engines
D) speaker's bureau

Answer 1

D

Question 2

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

A) timestamps
B) validity
C) URLs
D) spelling errors

Answer 2

B

Question 3

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

A) quotations
B) APA formatting
C) internal citations
D) Chicago formatting

Answer 3

C

Question 4

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

A) Footnotes
B) Works Cited
C) Quoted Sources
D) Paraphrase

Question 5

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

A) Plagiarism
B) Misquoting
C) Attribution
D) Direct quotation

Question 6

Which of the following is not a signal phrase?

A) Dr. Lee notes
B) Professor James pointed out
C) Governor Madison claims
D) I think that

Question 7

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)

Question 8

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)

Question 9

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)

Question 10

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)

Question 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.
-"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)

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

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

Question 15

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

Question 16

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
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Question 17

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