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Please provide the best answer for each question.
- 1.Five evaluative criteria to use when analyzing the reliability of any piece of information are _______.
- A.
Authorship, accuracy, innovation, novelty, and credibility.
- B.
Authorship, accuracy, objectivity, scope, and currency.
- C.
Originality, point of view, design, circumstance, and audience.
- D.
Benchmark, activity, productivity, convenience, and conformance.
- E.
Michael, Randy, Jermaine, Tito, and Marlon.
- 2.When searching information catalogs and databases, controlled vocabulary refers to ________.
- A.
Abstracts, keywords, and titles.
- B.
Titles, authors, and keywords.
- C.
Subject headings, subject terms, and related terms.
- D.
Phrase searching, subject searching, and keyword
- E.
Due dates, fines, and complaint cards.
- 3.What result will performing a search like the one below be more likely to return? "embryonic stem cell research"
- A.
A newspaper article: NIH cannot fund embryonic stem cell research
- B.
A governmental site: FAQs: Stem Cell Information
- C.
A Wikipedia entry: Fetal tissue implant
- 4.Academic Search Complete contains _______________.
- A.
Full-text books.
- B.
Articles from the St. Petersburg Times.
- C.
Full-text journal articles.
- D.
Feature-length educational videos.
- 5.What results will the following search be more likely to produce? ball*
- A.
The definition: a round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games
- B.
Information on balls, ballasts, and balloons
- C.
Information on globes, spheres, and dance parties.
- 6.An article from a peer-reviewed journal _____________.
- A.
Represents properly conducted original research and/or writing.
- B.
Contains current events on a specific topic within a professional field.
- C.
Includes the latest information on general interest topics.
- D.
Delineates what is popular from what is not.
- 7.A good way to assess the credentials of a journal article's author is to __________.
- A.
Send an email through the publisher's website.
- B.
Search for the author's name in Google Scholar.
- C.
Search for the author's name on Author.com.
- D.
Search for the author's name on YouTube.com
- 8.When creating a bibliography, all sources appear in __________.
- A.
The order cited.
- B.
Chronological order by date.
- C.
Alphabetical order.
- D.
Numerical order.
- 9.Top-level domains can help you _______________.
- A.
Limit your search to certain terms.
- B.
Limit your search to certain types of sites.
- C.
Limit your search to public domain information.
- 10.In bibliographies, the second and all subsequent lines of all sources are _________.
- A.
Flush left.
- B.
Indented one inch
- C.
Indented half-an-inch
- D.
Indented a quarter-inch.
- 11.If you wanted to connect symptoms to a disease, the best Boolean operator to use would be _______________.
- A.
OR
- B.
AND
- C.
NOT
- 12.You feel like you do not have enough research, which Boolean operator would you use to expand your search?
- A.
OR
- B.
AND
- C.
NOT
- 13.The more ANDs you use in your search, the ________________.
- A.
More results you'll have.
- B.
Less results you'll have
- C.
Best results you'll have.
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