ENG 105_ Information Literacy Post_Assessment |ENG-105 Information Literacy Post-Assessment

ENG-105 Information Literacy Post-Assessment 1. When required to use peer-reviewed articles on a topic for your essay, where would you find this type of resource? Magazines • Books • Newspapers • Jour ...

ENG-105 Information Literacy Post-Assessment 1. When required to use peer-reviewed articles on a topic for your essay, where would you find this type of resource? Magazines • Books • Newspapers • Journals • Not sure 2. A peer-reviewed journal article is: Reviewed by the author’s friends • Reviewed by experts in the same subject field prior to being published • Reviewed for grammatical errors • Reviewed by the author’s colleagues • Not sure 3. The following reference is a: Bland, H. W., Melton, B. F., Bigham, L. E., & Welle, P. D. (2014). Quantifying the impact of physical activity on stress tolerance in college students. College Student Journal, 48(4), 559-568. • Book • Website • Encyclopedia • Journal article 4. You find the perfect article for your assignment and want to find more like it. What do you do? Search using the author’s name in the library’s databases to see if they have written more articles on the topic • Check the references section for articles on a similar topic that were used as sources in the article • Identify key words in the article to use in your next search • All of the above 5. When using a journal article to support your essay, when do you have to include an in-text citation? • When using a block quote from the journal article • When paraphrasing a few sentences from the journal article • When using a direct quote from the journal article • All of the above • None of the above 6, If you are writing a compare/contrast paper on a controversial topic like capital punishment, it is important to: • Consider both sides of the issue and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of both • Choose only resources that describe your opinion on the topic • Only describe the strengths of one side and the weaknesses of the other • Build a strong case that one side is better than the other 6. When should you consult a librarian for assistance? • You don’t know where to start to search for scholarly resources • You need help choosing the best keywords, search strategy, or resources • You searched in the library databases and the search had zero results • You have an article or other resource and don’t know how to properly cite the reference • All of the above 8, Wikipedia can be a good starting place to learn more about a research a topic. However, it is usually inappropriate to use Wikipedia as a cited resource in college papers assignments because: • Wikipedia is created by multiple persons and it isn’t clear what authority they may have on a specific topic • Changes can easily be made to Wikipedia that may be inaccurate • It is difficult to determine if the content is biased • All of the above 9. Copyright law in the United States, which governs intellectual property rights, applies to which type of resources? • Books • Videos • Blogs • All of the above 10. Which of the following is an example of a primary source? • An encyclopedia entry about World War II • A textbook about global conflict and wars • The Diary of Anne Frank • All of the above 11. Which of the following is NOT a Boolean operator? • AND • EITHER • NOT • OR 12. On the reference page of your essay, the references should be alphabetized by: • Author first name • Author last name • Article title • None of the above 13. To learn about the current issues in your field of study you can: • Run a search for scholarly journal articles in the library’s databases published in the last year in your field of study • Browse the website for a professional association for your field of study • Interview a professional in your field of study • All of the above 14. You need scholarly research on the treatment of diabetes. What type of resource would provide the best information? • A popular medical website • A peer-reviewed medical journal • A current online magazine article • A popular YouTube video 15. When doing research on your topic, “The impact of steroids on America”, you find you have too much information for a three page essay. What do you do? • Use as much information as possible and hope the professor doesn’t notice that the essay is two pages longer than the maximum • Choose a brand new topic; this one is too hard to cover in a college paper • Reduce the scope of your topic to something more focused, such as the use of steroids in American high schools • Pick the first three articles you find and write an essay based on these three resources 16. The correct way to write the in-text citation for the following reference is: Solganick, H. (2013). Creating constructive consciousness: Critical thinking for the Christian. Global Education Journal, 2013(3), 1-33. • (Creating constructive consciousness, 2013) • (Global Education Journal, 2013) • (Solganick, H., 2013) • (Solganick, 2013)