Hum 311 -- Week 3 Mid-week Discussion Quiz
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- 1.Everything is available on the Internet?
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.The problems with Google searches are:
- A.
They don't always bring up substantial articles.
- B.
They don't distinguish between good and bad articles.
- C.
They fail to retrieve the best articles
- D.
All of the above
- 3.As long as I look at eight different websites, I will get the same information, so I'll be credible.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.When evaluating the facts of your argument you should ask all of the following except:
- A.
Do you have good reason to believe that the information on the site is accurate?
- B.
What is the author's point of view?
- C.
What makes you think the "facts" you see are really facts?
- D.
What does Wikipedia say in reference to the topic?
- 5.Truncating a URL can help you find:
- A.
Where an article was originally published.
- B.
Information about authorship
- C.
Why the article was written.
- D.
If the article is falid.
- 6.It is irrelevant to know if a website intends to inform, to persuade, or to sell you something as long as you get the information that you need?
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.When you know what's happening, you consider:
- A.
What is being said
- B.
What is not being said
- C.
Both A&B
- D.
None of these
- 8.When people speak of "web pages," they mean:
- A.
All internet pages
- B.
Wikipedia entries
- C.
Pages designed for the Internet
- D.
Scholarly articles used for research
- 9.There were no great differences in the results of doing a search for "flirting" in Google and Google Scholar (found in the "Distinguish Web Pages" section).
- A.
True
- B.
False
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