Developing Research Skills: Mastery Test

Using someone else's work to help you without their permission is:

• plagiarism
• periodical
• research
• cite

This contains and lists all of your citations for information you used in your research:

• research paper format
• bibliography / works cited
• parenthetical citation (in-line citation)
• publisher

If you paraphrase, summarize, or directly quote information, you must:

• research the source
• format the source
• cite the source
• bibliography / works cited the source

A reliable source is

• biased
• trusted
• trying to sell you something
• google

An example of a reliable source is...

• a print or an online encyclopedia.
• wikipedia.com.
• google.com.
• yahoo.com.

Steps you can take to determine if a source is reliable will include

• looking for the author.
• determining the author of the website.
• verifying the author's expertise.
• all of the above.

If you find a great website as a source for your English project, which of the following is true?

• You can copy and paste the text, but not the images, into your report

• You can't use any of the information on the site without permission

• You can use information on the site as long as you cite it properly

• You don't have to cite your source if you only use short quotations

Which of the following is a telltale sign of an untrustworthy online source?

• Grammatical mistakes

• A plain-looking logo

• Links to other sources

• Lots of text with very few graphics

True or False: With most websites, you don't have to read the entire page to find what you're looking for. You can just skim the page instead.

• True
• False

In Google, how should you phrase your search if you want to exclude a certain word from your results (for example, "chocolate")?

• dessert (exclude: chocolate)

• dessert ~chocolate

• dessert -chocolate

• dessert NOT chocolate