Test
Your Research Skills
1) The most important
reason to select a subject as the topic of your research paper is:
2) What is the best way to truncate the word SOCIOLOGY
in order to get the variant words: sociological, sociologically, sociologist?
3) You need to do research
on alcoholism among female teens. What Boolean search is best suited to retrieve
the information you need?
4) Which database is best suited
to finding periodical articles on the above topic of alcoholism among female
teens?
5) In doing a research paper
on euthanasia, it would be best to proceed in the following order:
6) You
need to locate a brief introductory article to acquaint yourself with the Sudan,
the largest nation in Africa. You should look in:
7) Which statement about reference
books is NOT true:
8) The above is an image of
the RVCC library catalog. It shows some of the ways that you may search the
catalog for books. If you have a vague recollection of the title of a book recommended
by your professor, you should search for the book by:
9) When searching the library
catalog for books on a subject, you can find the most appropriate subject heading
by exploring the:
10) Refer to the above library catalog
screen in answering the question. If you wanted to find additional books like
The Gulf war: a day-by-day chronicle, you should search for:
11) The library catalog will provide
bibliographic information about books and audiovisual materials located:
12) To
find an article about the activities of the Speaker of the House of Representatives
during the previous week you should look in:
13) You need to know whether
a specific periodical is available at the RVCC library. Select the best answer:
14) The difference between a
full-text database and a citation database is:
15) You need to locate a recent
scholarly article on the use of steroids by athletes. Your best approach using
the ProQuest Research Library screen above would be:
Refer to the Web page above in answering
the next three questions:
16) Is there any indication
of when this page appeared on the WWW and whether it is being maintained?
17) Is there any way to determine
the author of this Web page and his/her qualifications?
18) What statement about this
Web page is true?
19) Search engines like Alta
Vista or Google search for information in
20) Select the BEST answer.
In evaluating books or periodical articles you should consider
21) Select the BEST answer.
In evaluating Web pages as sources of information you should consider.
22) Plagiarism means using a
textbook or encyclopedia article as a source of information in writing a research
paper. True or false?
23) What information is not
required in a Bibliography or Works Cited page:
24) The following Library of
Congress call numbers are in the correct order as they should be found on the
library shelf:
25) A meta-search engine is
one that: