Gobal Persepctives and Research Essay Quiz

Reliable sources are always the first Google result.

• True

• False

What is a warning sign that a website might NOT have trustworthy information?

• The author is an expert

• The information comes from a well-known newspaper

• It is not clear who the author is and there are adverts for products and/or services.

• The information is current

A reliable source is ...

• biased

• promoting a product

• trusted

• google

Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

• bias

• symbolism

• propaganda

• media

What is a big clue that information on a webpage is not trustworthy?

• plain looking logo

• links to other sources of information

• spelling and grammar mistakes

• lots of text not a lot of pictures

We can best conclude that the creators of these posters…

• Are historical experts

• Are misinformed

• Have different viewpoints

• Need to include more pictures

Why should you cite your resources?

• to give credit to the people who created it and avoid being accused of plagiarism

• to use it as your own

• to copy another person's work

• none of the above

You locate a chart that will strengthen one of the major points of your essay. You don't cite it because it's just a chart and they do not need to be documented.

This is ...

• providing credibility to the person who created the chart

• plagiarism

• academic honesty

• using facts

You find an excellent idea in an article and you use it in your paper. You don't bother to cite the source because it is completely in your own words. This is...

• great research

• paraphrasing

• academic honesty

• plagiarism

Two ways to check the credibility of a source is to ...

• evaluate reliability

• phone a friend

• evaluate neutrality and the arguments presented

• Check how many followers they have