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Reading, Recording, and Reviewing Research MCQ

1. Trade publications and academic articles are both written by experts in their fields.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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2. “Fake news” is characterized by the use of ______.

Prefabricated information

Accurate information misinterpreted by the audience

Imposters pretending to be someone else or using “fake” credentials

Reporters who don’t have the resources to check their facts

Answer

Correct Answer: Imposters pretending to be someone else or using “fake” credentials

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3. There are several questions you should ask about the information you find online to avoid using fake news. These questions include which of the following?

What the author’s credentials and affiliation?

Who is the intended audience?

What does the URL tell you?

All of these

Answer

Correct Answer: All of these

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4. Most articles found by using a search engine will have been peer reviewed.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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5. You must find out what has been researched in order to find out what needs to be researched.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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6. A basic objective of a literature search is to eliminate all irrelevant information while maximizing the amount of relevant information obtained.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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7. An English mathematician invented a type of linguistic algebra to help reduce the number of search results to something manageable. It is referred to as ______.

Boolean operators

Booles’ linguistic process

Booles’ bears

The A.O.N. Process

Answer

Correct Answer: Boolean operators

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8. Scholarly journals are the only source of academically credible information.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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9. Catalogs, dictionaries, and encyclopedias are NOT useful sources of information because online databases have made them obsolete.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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10. According to the text, what are the two things we want from a literature search?

Quantity and quality

Relevance and quality

Significance and impact

Novelty and uniqueness

Answer

Correct Answer: Relevance and quality

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11. When you record the results of a search you need record only the book or article’s title and author.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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12. One difference between scholarly literature and most other kinds is that scholarly publications are refereed.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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13. Primary sources are articles that interpret or summarize the writings of the original authors.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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14. Secondary sources are articles that interpret or summarize the writings of the original authors.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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15. Secondary sources are articles that interpret or summarize the writings of the original authors.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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16. Articles that go through a process of peer review before publication are found in ______ publications.

Popular

Trade

Conference

Scholarly

Answer

Correct Answer: Scholarly

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17. MLA stands for Modern Language Association.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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18. In the context of research reporting, a term referring to The Chicago Manual of Style is a reference style.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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19. ____ is the standard style for many communication scholars when they reference other people’s work.

APA

MLA

AMA

IPA

Answer

Correct Answer: APA

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20. A string of characters used to uniquely identify a web-based document is a term known as ____.

DOI

Url

Isbn

Pmid

Answer

Correct Answer: DOI

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21. Boolean operators are _____.

AND

NOR

All of above

Answer

Correct Answer: All of above

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22. Stories or information that take the form of news but have not been written, produced, or edited to traditional or professional news media standards are called _____.

Fake news

Breaking news

Bullet-in

Real news

Answer

Correct Answer: Fake news

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23. A term related to books and journals is _____.

Bibliography

Citation

Reference

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Bibliography

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24. An author’s interpretation or summary of an original source—for example, a literature review is known as _____.

Secondary source

Primary source

Second copy

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Secondary source

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25. An original article or book is called _____.

Primary source

Secondary source

Reference

First copy

Answer

Correct Answer: Primary source

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26. The publication details of books, journal articles, or websites are known as _____.

Citations

References

Bibliography

Impact factor

Answer

Correct Answer: Citations

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27. Trade publications are published for particular industries.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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28. Popular articles are published without _____ process.

Refereeing

Reviewing

Search fields

Citation

Answer

Correct Answer: Refereeing

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29. VResearch papers that have been peer reviewed and published in academic journals are called _____.

Scholarly articles

Patents

Peer reviewed

Journal articles

Answer

Correct Answer: Scholarly articles

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30. _____ is a quantitative measure for a concept or activity.

Metric

Cubic

Pound

Kilo

Answer

Correct Answer: Metric

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31. In scholarly publishing, a measure of the number of times journal articles are ______ by other scholarly articles is called the impact factor.

Cited

Referred

Reviewed

Copied

Answer

Correct Answer: Cited

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32. Search fields are searchable components of a database, such as date, author, and title.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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33. In the context of bibliographic research, collections of (mostly) scholarly articles that can be searched electronically is known as _____.

Databases

Refereeing

Search fields

Impact factor.

Answer

Correct Answer: Databases

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34. The process of other researchers in an author’s field reviewing her or his research prior to its publication is called refereeing.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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35. _____ word typed into a database or search engine when searching for information.

Search term

Bibliography

Databases

Search fields

Answer

Correct Answer: Search term

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36. _____ is a list of sources (e.g., books, documents, and journal articles) about a particular topic or by a particular author or referred to in a scholarly work.

Bibliography

References

Citation

Footnotes

Answer

Correct Answer: Bibliography

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