-,. C. Scliolarly journals are more entertaining, magazines are more reliable D. Magazines are entertaining, which means they can't be educational. 20. Which of the following would require documentation in an academic research paper? A. An observation you made while on a field trip to a zoo B. A statement regarding Thomas Jefferson being the third President of the United States C. A photograph from your family reunion D. A map of Brooklyn, NY, found in an atlas End ofexam Student ID: 52148226 Exam: 050182RR - Research and MLA Citation When you have completed your exam and reviewed your answers, click Submit Exam. Answers will not be recorded until you hit Submit Exam. If you need to exit before completing the exam, click Cancel Exam. Questions I to 20: Select the best answer to each question. Note that a question and its answers may be split across apage break, so be sure that you have seen the entire question and all the answers before choosing an answer. 1. Which of the following is not a generahzation? A. Soccer is a sport that involves a ball. B. Nothing is made in America anymore. C. Women mature faster than men. D. On every college campus athletes get special treatment. 2. What can an assumption do to an essay? A. An assumption can strengthen a thesis. B. An assumption can make an argument more valid. C. An assumption can cause an essay to present incorrect information and ideas. D. An assumption can give a writer something to base the rest of the essay on. 3. Suppose that you're going to interview someone in preparation for writing a research paper on teaching techniques for macroeconomics. For this topic, who would be the besl person to interview? A. An economist B. A professor of macroeconomics C. The president of a university D. A student in a macroeconomics course 4. Which of the following is an example of opinion? A. Abraham Lincoln presented the Gettysburg Address on November I 9, 1 863. B. The Canadian men's hockey team won the gold medal in the 2010 Winter Olympics. C. Organic food should be made more affordable. D. The color blue sometimes signifies sadness or depression. 5. In which of the following situations would paraphrasing be useful and ethical? A. You don't fully understand what the author is saying. B. You want to use an author's idea but don't wish to quote the author directly. C. You wish to make it seem as if the author's ideas are yours. D. You want to change the author's meaning. 6. Regarding the puncfuation of quotations, which of the following'sentences ts correct? A. As Longstreet and Smyth report "There is no exception to the rule" (136). B. Leslie and Farmer, declared, "Life among the Lakota is in accord with nature (68)." C. The decision was unequivocal: "The Constitution permits legislative review" (Quayle 128). D. Grant and Fanell argue that "charges of Wall Street comrption are nothing new. (43)" 7. It's permissible to delete a word from a direct quotation ...

1. -,. C. Scliolarly journals are more entertaining, magazines are
more reliable
D. Magazines are entertaining, which means they can't be
educational.
20. Which of the following would require documentation in an
academic research paper?
A. An observation you made while on a field trip to a zoo
B. A statement regarding Thomas Jefferson being the third
President of the United States
C. A photograph from your family reunion
D. A map of Brooklyn, NY, found in an atlas
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2. exam, click Cancel Exam.
Questions I to 20: Select the best answer to each question. Note
that a question and its answers may be split across apage
break, so be sure that you have seen the entire question and all
the answers before choosing an answer.
1. Which of the following is not a generahzation?
A. Soccer is a sport that involves a ball.
B. Nothing is made in America anymore.
C. Women mature faster than men.
D. On every college campus athletes get special treatment.
2. What can an assumption do to an essay?
A. An assumption can strengthen a thesis.
B. An assumption can make an argument more valid.
C. An assumption can cause an essay to present incorrect
information and ideas.
D. An assumption can give a writer something to base the rest
of the essay on.
3. Suppose that you're going to interview someone in
preparation for writing a research paper on teaching
techniques for macroeconomics. For this topic, who would be
the besl person to interview?
A. An economist

3. B. A professor of macroeconomics
C. The president of a university
D. A student in a macroeconomics course
4. Which of the following is an example of opinion?
A. Abraham Lincoln presented the Gettysburg Address on
November I 9, 1 863.
B. The Canadian men's hockey team won the gold medal in the
2010 Winter Olympics.
C. Organic food should be made more affordable.
D. The color blue sometimes signifies sadness or depression.
5. In which of the following situations would paraphrasing be
useful and ethical?
A. You don't fully understand what the author is saying.
B. You want to use an author's idea but don't wish to quote the
author directly.
C. You wish to make it seem as if the author's ideas are yours.
D. You want to change the author's meaning.
6. Regarding the puncfuation of quotations, which of the
following'sentences ts correct?
A. As Longstreet and Smyth report "There is no exception to the

4. rule" (136).
B. Leslie and Farmer, declared, "Life among the Lakota is in
accord with nature (68)."
C. The decision was unequivocal: "The Constitution permits
legislative review" (Quayle 128).
D. Grant and Fanell argue that "charges of Wall Street
comrption are nothing new. (43)"
7. It's permissible to delete a word from a direct quotation as
long as you don't change the meaning of the
quote. To indicate your deletion in the quote, you would
A. use a hyphen in place of the deleted word or passage.
B. use an ellipsis to designate a deletion.
C. write the "deleted" in that space.
D. mark the deleted space with a comma before and after the
deleted word.
8. When skimming a source, one helpful guideline to foliow is
to
A. pay no attention to any pictures, maps, or charts.
B. read the first sentence ofeach paragraph.
C. skip the first and last paragraphs.
D. read the entire source.
9. VIhy is it helpful to search for a bibliography on a topic?

5. A. Once you complete the basic bibliography search, you're
finished finding sources.
B. A bibliography provides only books you can use as sources.
C. A bibliography can provide you with a list of various sources
on your topic.
D. A bibliography search normally isn't helpful.
10. The MLA format for citing a book has six parts, beginning
with the author's name. What appears in the
fifth position?
A. Date
B. Medium
C. Place of publication
D. Publisher
11. Of the following, which is the most important to consider
when analyzing and revising an academic
paper?
A. That the opinion is clearly highlighted with emphatic,
emotional statements
B. That the paper contains many large words
C. That the thesis is clear and that the main points support that
thesis
D. That the paper will be entertaining for the instructor to read
12. Which of the following is not a good technique for learning

6. your way around a library?
A. Consulting with the librarians.
B. Wandering around without a purpose the first time you visit
C. Reviewing the library website.
D. Taking a formal or guided tour of the library.
13. Of the following, which system of note-taking would be the
most apptopriate to use while doing
research for a paper?
A. Making a notecard for each source
B. Highlighting all unfamiliar terms within each source
C. Copying and pasting source text to use, without citation,
within the final paper
D. Memorizing information for each source
14. What should you include in a keyword search when you
wish to broaden the search and find any
documents containing at least one of a list of two or more
terms?
A. NOT
B. AND
c. oR
D.*

7. 15. Which of the following is not atip that can help you find
good sources for a topic?
A. Keep track of citation information for each source.
B. Limit yourself to one source in the beginning.
C. Have a clear system of notetaking.
D. Have a nanowed topic and working thesis.
16. Which of the following would not be considered plagiarism?
A. Submitting an essay that a friend submitted several years ago
B. Using graphs, tables, diagrams that someone else created,
without citing them
C. Summarizing source information and including a citation on
the Works Cited page
D. Acknowledging a source when directly quoting but not
including quotation marks
17. You're working to come up with an interesting topic. Which
of the following terms would not apply to
that effort?
A. Novel
B. Breaking
C. Practical
D. Manageable

8. 18. Why should academic writers use the third-person point of
view for a research paper?
A. This point of view allows you to be more objective in your
writing.
B. This point of view limits your credibility.
C. When using this point of view, you can easily switch to a
different point of view.
D. This point of view keeps your writing simple,
19. Why is it better to rely on information from scholarly
journals, nol magazines, in academic writing?
A. Authors in scholarly jountals are generally specialists in
their field.
B. Scholarly journals are more difficult to find.