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1 Test Review Be prepared to provide an answer.
What situation would cause you to use three hyphens to start an entry on a Works Cited page? There was no author for that source. Your essay cites two or more sources by the same author. It notes that this is a primary source as opposed to a secondary source. It means that it is an electronic, rather than print, source. All of the following are correct statements regarding the format of the research paper EXCEPT Other than the headers at the top-right of each page, the margins should be 1-inch at the top, bottom, and sides of your paper. Each paragraph should be indented ½-inch from the left margin. The paper should be double-spaced throughout, including the list of Works Cited. A 12-point Times New Roman font should be used throughout the paper, including the Works Cited page. The heading (with your name, my name, the class name, and the date) goes on every page of your paper.

2 Write it down! When evaluating the qualifications of an author on a given topic, you should consider all of the following EXCEPT Educational background Professional affiliations Gender Awards received Which of the following reflects a PARAPHRASE when taking notes? It is when you want to record only the general idea of large amounts of material. It is when you restate the detailed ideas of a source using your own word choice and sentence structure, but do not need the exact wording. It is when you quote verbatim from a work and enclose the source material in quotation marks. It is when you use notecards to record notes taken from secondary sources. All of the following are examples of plagiarism EXCEPT You use common knowledge - stating, for example, that Barack Obama is President of the United States - without documenting a source. You include in your essay someone else’s unique or particularly distinctive phrasing verbatim without using quotation marks around it. You paraphrase the results of someone’s research without citing the source. You bought or otherwise acquired a research paper and handed in part or all of it as your own.

3 When using Wikipedia and other sources…
Which of the following would be considered a scholarly source? People Magazine The New York Times The Journal of the American Medical Association Wikipedia Wikipedia can be a good way to generate a list of keywords for searching elsewhere. learn background information on a topic. find additional sources for your research topic. All of these are true Sources you find listed on Wikipedia should be treated automatically as scholarly works and used in your paper. cited, but with a note that they were found on Wikipedia. evaluated individually for scholarly merit before used in your paper. considered “plagiarized” sources, and should never be used in academic research.

4 Workshop Tomorrow The entire essay is due, including the works cited page. Two typed copies are required. You may bring your laptops, but we will only look at hard copies of your essay. Make sure you review the assignment sheet in advance. The peer review will be graded on the elements.

5 Test Review: Don’t Forget to Review Chapters 19-21
What information can you gather about a site with this URL? envdata.us.gov/statistics It is published by an educational institution. It is trying to sell something. You can’t gather information from a URL. It is published by a government agency. . Which of the following statements is TRUE? The more results you get on Google, the better your search was. When searching with Google or other internet search engines, it is best to use broad terms. When searching with Google or other internet search engines, it is best to use specific terms for a narrow search. If you type words next to each other, Google will search for them next to each other. Which topic would require the most current sources of information? An analysis of the 2000 presidential election recount A critique of Shakespeare's sonnets An analysis of the increase in diagnoses of ADHD A comparison of the poverty levels of African Americans before and after Jim Crow was abolished

6 . Which term is INCORRECTLY matched with its definition?
Abstract - This is a short description of the content of a source. Annotated Bibliography – This is what appears on the Works Cited page of your research paper. It consists of a citation and a brief descriptive paragraph of the source. PDF - This form retains the appearance, content, and layout of the original source. HTML - This form provides the text of the original source, but the appearance does not match the original source.

7 . All of the following apply to scholarly journals EXCEPT
Scholarly journals contain a list of references indicating the sources used. Scholarly journals are written for an informed, knowledgeable audience. Scholarly journals are often published only a few times a year. Scholarly journals contain short articles written by journalists. . What type of source is this? Skloot, Rebecca. "The Body Bank." Popular Science (2007): Academic Search Complete. Web. 24 Nov It is a book with one author. It is an article from an online database. It is a newspaper article accessed via the Internet. It is a music recording.


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