1. Who can publish on the Web?
a. Businesses & Universities
b. Non-profit organizations & government agencies
c. Middle school students
d. Anyone
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2. Which of the following is a characteristic of scholarly journals?
a. Reports on current events
b. Usually published weekly
c. Articles include bibliographies or references
d. Normally read by the general public
3. When searching the Internet you should keep in mind?
a. That you can find any information online if you just search long enough.
b. That banner ads and chat rooms will often lead you to the best quality information.
c. That because of copyright laws, nothing worth while is ever published on the internet.
d. That not all online sources provide reliable iniformation.
4. Which of the following is an example of a primary source?
a. Movie review
b. Encyclopedia of Witches and Witchcraft
c. Chemist's lab notes
d. Newspaper article
5.Select the set of words that contain broader, narrower, and related ( in that order) vocabulary for the term "fruit"
a. apples, carrots, grocery store
b. agriculture, peaches, canning
c. seeds, produce, pineapple
d. fruits, fruity, fruitcake
6. Which of the following suggests the best topic for a brief research paper?
a. School violence
b. How might human genome mapping impact HIV / AIDS research?
c. Sweat shops and American manufacturers
d. What percentage of the Cuban population lives below the poverty line?
7. Which is the best 1st strategy when you find too much information?
a. Broaden your question
b. Narrow your question
c. Change your topic
d. Only use the first few results
8. Which would NOT be an effective way to narrow the broad topic of "identity theft"?
a. Since the year 2000
b. Issues relating to prevalence of among senior citizens
c. Computer crime in the United States
d. Financial and legal repercussions
9. Which field would you search to find books about Shakespeare?
a. Author
b. Title
c. Keyword
d. Subject
10. The term "coverage" refers to:
a. The time period represented in a database
b. The languages represented in a database
c. The types of documents described in a database
d. The disciplines represented in a database
e. All of the above
11. Which of the following is NOT a database?
a. World Wide Web
b. Telephone directory
c. Library Catalog
d. Academic Search Premier
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d. c. d. c. b. b. b. c. d. e. a.
Three of my answers are right. I did not get the last one.
ReplyDeleteyes, the last question is a litter...
ReplyDeletehowever, we gain some knowledge on it and know the primary source of the information literacy from Chemist's lab notes.
Yes, that last question is very thought provoking. I guess a database tends to be organized and structured, which are two things that the World Wide Web is not!
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