Research Test Review

1. Why is it important to cite a source?

• To give credit to the person who wrote the information.

• To know from where did you find the information.

• To show that you did an investigation, so your work is more complete.

• ALL of them

Your works cited page (bibliography) should be in ____ order.

• alphabetical

• chronological

• random

• numerical

In order to avoid plagiarism, you should always _____.

• give credit to the person who created the material you are using

• hope nobody checks to find out it isn't your own original work

• change a few words so it isn't technically word-for-word

When copying something word for word, use ___.

• exclamation marks

• commas

• quotation marks

• parentheses

Using the ideas or words of someone else and claiming they are your own is:

• plagiarism

• borrowing

• not a big deal

• fun and games

The C in CUPS stands for

• Conflict

• Circle

• Capitalize

• Caricature

The U in CUPS stands for

• Usage

• Underline

• User error

The P in CUPS stands for

• Places

• Periods

• Personification

• Punctuation

The S in CUPS stands for

• Similes

• Symbolism

• Spelling

• Satire

Is Wikipedia a good source?

• Yes, to start to gather information and develop a baseline understanding of a topic as long as it is backed by other websites.

• Yes, to plagiarize all of the answers from.

• No, and I would never use it.

• No, but I use it anyway.