Deck 19: Strengthening an Essay With Research

Question 1

Instructions: Identify each of the following statements as true or false. Careful documentation of information gathered from outside sources will help prevent plagiarism.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Instructions: Select the letter of the correct word for each blank. The
____ provides all of the sources you summarized, directly quoted, or indirectly quoted in your essay, in alphabetical order by the author's last name.

A) search engine
B) Works Cited list
C) evaluation

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Instructions: Select the letter of the correct word for each blank. To find information on the Internet, a researcher can use a
____ such as Google.

A) search engine
B) documentation
C) citation

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Instructions: Each question below is an entry for a Works Cited page. Select "Correct" if the entry is correctly formatted according to MLA guidelines or "Incorrect" if the entry is not correctly formatted. "Lance Armstrong Loses (Almost) Everything." Slate.com. The Slate Group. 24 Aug. 2012. Web. 26 Aug. 2012.

A) Correct
B) Incorrect

Question 5

Instructions: Identify each of the following statements as true or false. Facts and statistics from outside sources must be documented, but direct quotations do not have to be documented.

Question 6

Instructions: Each question below is an entry for a Works Cited page. Select "Correct" if the entry is correctly formatted according to MLA guidelines or "Incorrect" if the entry is not correctly formatted. Isaacson, Walter. "Keep It Simple." September 2012 Smithsonian , p. 42.

A) Correct
B) Incorrect

Question 7

Instructions: Select the letter of the correct word for each blank. According to MLA guidelines, a correct
____ should appear in two places in your essay: in parentheses inside the essay and in a Works Cited list at the end of the essay.

A) research
B) citation
C) evaluation

Question 8

Instructions: Each question below is an entry for a Works Cited page. Select "Correct" if the entry is correctly formatted according to MLA guidelines or "Incorrect" if the entry is not correctly formatted. "Save Money, Save the Environment" by Maura Judkis, U.S. News & World Report , April 2010, pp. 58-61.

A) Correct
B) Incorrect

Question 9

Instructions: Each question below is an entry for a Works Cited page. Select "Correct" if the entry is correctly formatted according to MLA guidelines or "Incorrect" if the entry is not correctly formatted. Goode, Erica. "Average Prison Stay Grew 36 Percent in Two Decades." New York Times 6 June 2012: 12. Print.

A) Correct
B) Incorrect

Question 10

Instructions: Each question below is an entry for a Works Cited page. Select "Correct" if the entry is correctly formatted according to MLA guidelines or "Incorrect" if the entry is not correctly formatted. Wilson, James Q. and John J. DiIulio, Jr. American Government . 9th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Print.

A) Correct
B) Incorrect

Question 11

Instructions: Each question below is an entry for a Works Cited page. Select "Correct" if the entry is correctly formatted according to MLA guidelines or "Incorrect" if the entry is not correctly formatted. Ellis, Joseph J. His Excellency: George Washington : 2004.

A) Correct
B) Incorrect

Question 12

Instructions: Each question below is an entry for a Works Cited page. Select "Correct" if the entry is correctly formatted according to MLA guidelines or "Incorrect" if the entry is not correctly formatted. American Cancer Society. 1 Feb. 2012. Guide to Quitting Smoking . www.cancer.org/Healthy/StayAwayfromTobacco/GuidetoQuittingSmoking/index.

A) Correct
B) Incorrect

Question 13

Instructions: Identify each of the following statements as true or false. Information from outside sources is usually interesting but does not help support an essay's main points.

Question 14

Instructions: Select the letter of the correct word for each blank.
____ of a web site involves studying it to determine whether the information it presents seems accurate, up to date, and fair.

A) Documentation
B) Citation
C) Evaluation

Question 15

Instructions: Each question below is an entry for a Works Cited page. Select "Correct" if the entry is correctly formatted according to MLA guidelines or "Incorrect" if the entry is not correctly formatted. Holland, Kimberly. 2012. "Stop a Cold in Its Tracks"

A) Correct
B) Incorrect

Question 16

Instructions: Each question below is an entry for a Works Cited page. Select "Correct" if the entry is correctly formatted according to MLA guidelines or "Incorrect" if the entry is not correctly formatted. Hellmich, Nanci. "Outlook on Obesity Is Pretty Grim." USA Today. 30 Aug. 2011: 6D. Print.

A) Correct
B) Incorrect

Question 17

Instructions: Each question below is an entry for a Works Cited page. Select "Correct" if the entry is correctly formatted according to MLA guidelines or "Incorrect" if the entry is not correctly formatted. McCallum, Jack. " Dream Team ," 2012, Ballentine Books in New York.

A) Correct
B) Incorrect

Question 18

Instructions: Select the letter of the correct word for each blank. When using ____, a writer puts source information in the body of the essay, in parentheses, rather than in endnotes or footnotes.

A) MLA style
B) sources
C) evaluation

Question 19

Instructions: Identify each of the following statements as true or false. The author's last name is usually the first piece of information in a Works Cited entry.

Question 20

Instructions: Identify each of the following statements as true or false. According to MLA style guidelines, a correct citation in the body of an essay should appear inside parentheses after the material from that source.

Question 21

Instructions: Each question below is an entry for a Works Cited page. Select "Correct" if the entry is correctly formatted according to MLA guidelines or "Incorrect" if the entry is not correctly formatted. Barack Obama. The Audacity of Hope , 2008.

A) Correct
B) Incorrect

Question 22

Instructions: Select the letter of the correct answer for each of the questions below. Seeking answers to questions in sources outside yourself is called

A) using MLA style.
B) doing research.
C) documentation.

Question 23

Instructions: Select the correct term for the blank in each of the following statement(s). A method of putting source information in the body of the essay, in parentheses, rather than in footnotes or endnotes is called ____.

A) research
B) MLA style
C) a Works Cited list

Question 24

Instructions: Select the letter of the correct answer for each of the questions below. According to MLA guidelines, where should a source citation appear in an essay?

A) inside the essay in parentheses and at the end of the essay in a Works Cited list
B) at the bottom of the page only
C) at the end of the essay on an Endnotes page

Question 25

Instructions: Each question below is an entry for a Works Cited page. Select "Correct" if the entry is correctly formatted according to MLA guidelines or "Incorrect" if the entry is not correctly formatted. Hobson, Katherine. "How to Get the Very Best Cancer Care." U.S. News & World Report Dec. 2009: 52. Print.

A) Correct
B) Incorrect

Question 26

Instructions: Select the correct term for the blank in each of the following statement(s). To avoid plagiarism, a writer must provide
____ for facts, statistics, quotations, and other information from outside sources.

A) research
B) documentation
C) a library

Question 27

Instructions: Select the correct term for the blank in each of the following statement(s). The
____ appears at the end of the essay and provides information about all of the sources that the writer referred to in his or her essay.

A) Works Cited list
B) documentation
C) MLA style

Question 28

Instructions: For each Works Cited page entry below, select the answer "Correct" if the entry is correctly formatted according to MLA guidelines. Select the answer "Incorrect" if the entry is not correctly formatted. Miller, Peter. "Weather Gone Wild." National Geographic , 2012.

A) Correct
B) Incorrect

Question 29

Instructions: For each Works Cited page entry below, select the answer "Correct" if the entry is correctly formatted according to MLA guidelines. Select the answer "Incorrect" if the entry is not correctly formatted. Cain, Susan. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking . New York: Crown, 2012. Print.

A) Correct
B) Incorrect

Question 30

Instructions: Select the letter of the correct answer for each of the questions below. Which of the following is not something a correct source citation should do?

A) It should indicate that the material is from an outside source.
B) It should give your reader enough information to find the original source.
C) It should give the name of the library where you found the source.