FYS Credo Instruct Quiz #4: Types of Sources

Which of these describes "every day sources"?

• Professional publications related to specific industries like business, architecture, or sports therapy. Information found in trade journals often is written by and for professionals familiar with trends and topics in the field.

• Scholarly or reliable information that is not formally published, such as conference proceedings, reports, and government documents. Though it is a reliable source because it is produced by experts, it is not considered as credible of a source as traditional scholarly information since it typically is not checked by peer reviewers or editors.

• Sources such as news articles, social media posts, personal networks, YouTube videos, and infographics. This category is very broad and can include sources of communication you read, watch, listen to, and participate in. It can be digital content or conversations with people you know. These types of sources typically are the least credible when compared with the other categories.

• Sources such as academic or professional blogs, wikis, and digital humanities projects.

What are "tertiary sources"? Check ALL that apply.

• Contain information produced

  in the time period being studied, or was created by people who were present to observe

  an event. They are raw material or first-hand evidence associated with events from history.

• Textbooks,

  dictionaries, encyclopedias, and

  handbooks

• Compile information from primary or secondary sources that become widely accepted

• Biographies, commentaries, criticisms, documentaries, literature

  reviews, monographs, review articles, and websites that aren’t fiction or autobiographies.

What is a "secondary source"? Check ALL that apply.

• Biographies, commentaries, criticisms, documentaries, literature

  reviews, monographs, review articles, and websites that aren’t fiction or autobiographies.

• Contains information produced

  in the time period being studied, or was created by people who were present to observe

  an event. It's raw material or first-hand evidence associated with events from history.

• Compile information from other sources that become widely accepted

• A source that lists, analyzes, or reviews information.

  A source that is not evidence but rather the discussion

  of evidence.

Which of these describes "Non-Traditional Research Sources"?

• Sources such as news articles, social media posts, personal networks, YouTube videos, and infographics. This category is very broad and can include sources of communication you read, watch, listen to, and participate in. It can be digital content or conversations with people you know. These types of sources typically are the least credible when compared with the other categories.

• Sources such as academic or professional blogs, wikis, and digital humanities projects.

• Professional publications related to specific industries like business, architecture, or sports therapy. Information found in trade journals often is written by and for professionals familiar with trends and topics in the field.

• All of the above

What is a "primary source"? Check ALL that apply

• A source that lists, analyzes, or reviews information.

  A sources that is not evidence but rather the discussion

  of evidence.

• Contains information produced

  in the time period being studied, or was created by people who were present to observe

  an event. It's raw material or first-hand evidence associated with events from history.

• Data sets, documents, empirical studies, media recordings, photos,

  or research results, Autobiographies

  or memoirs, diaries, government documents, journal articles presenting research results,

  news broadcasts, newspaper articles, and speeches.

• Biographies, commentaries, criticisms, documentaries, literature

  reviews, monographs, review articles, and websites that aren’t fiction or autobiographies.

Which of these describes "traditional scholarly sources"?

• Scholarly or reliable information that is not formally published, such as conference proceedings, reports, and government documents.

• sources such as academic or professional blogs, wikis, and digital humanities projects.

• sources such as news articles, social media posts, personal networks, YouTube videos, and infographics. This category is very broad and can include sources of communication you read, watch, listen to, and participate in. It can be digital content or conversations with people you know.

• sources such as academic books and journal articles written by scholars and researchers for other scholars and researchers. These sources have been formally published and approved by peer reviewers and/or editors.

Which of these describes "gray literature"?

• Sources such as academic books and journal articles written by scholars and researchers for other scholars and researchers. These sources have been formally published and approved by peer reviewers and/or editors.

• Is scholarly or reliable information that is not formally published, such as conference proceedings, reports, and government documents. Though it is a reliable source because it is produced by experts, it is not considered as credible of a source as traditional scholarly information since it typically is not checked by peer reviewers or editors.

• professional publications related to specific industries like business, architecture, or sports therapy. Information found in trade journals often is written by and for professionals familiar with trends and topics in the field.

• Sources such as academic or professional blogs, wikis, and digital humanities projects.

Select the appropriate source type for the example: The New York Times Book Review.

• Primary

• Secondary

• Peer Review

• Journal

Your environmental studies professor has assigned a research paper about dams in North America. At least 2 of your sources must be primary. Which of the following is an example of a primary source?

• PBS documentary about major dams

• Photos taken of Lake Powell in 1955 before the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam

• A manual published in 2012 about maintaining original electrical systems in dams

• All of the above

Your English professor would like you to find one primary source and related secondary source. Which of the following below are a pair of primary and secondary sources that relate to each other?

• An Edgar Allan Poe poem and an 1849 photograph of the author

• Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” and a literary article about Gilman’s influence on women authors

• A recent magazine article about “The Old Man and the Sea” and a book review of “The Old Man and the Sea”

• None of the above