History 101 & 102 / American History Web Course WEB MODULE: Information Literacy / Library Skills
Developed by the Chesapeake College Library in conjunction with the History Department / © 2007 Last updated 5/17/07

Draft version of 7/17/2007

  Introduction Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6
           

Contents

Biography Resources

Electronic Databases

Other Resources

 

Part 6 -- Assessment

Part 6 assesses how well you have learned the concepts presented in this information literacy Web module. Fill in your name below. Then answer the 20 questions that follow by selecting the radio button corresponding to what you think is the correct answer. When you have answered all 10 questions, click the SUBMIT button.

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Your name: 

1. Information literacy is correctly working with sources in which order?
 Find, evaluate, incorporate, document
 Find, summarize, document, incorporate
 Find, document, evaluate, summarize
 Find, evaluate, document, quote

2. You incorporate ideas from a journal article about Franklin found in Biography Resource Center on Maryland Digital Library. This article is what type of source?
 A primary source
 A secondary source
 A tertiary source
 None of the above

3. Which of the following is a primary source?
 An article written in 1989 about Benjamin Franklin
 A 2005 biographical dictionary article about Benjamin Franklin
 An article written about Benjamin Franklin in 1754 by a contemporary
 None of the above

4. Which tool would you use to identify books located in the Chesapeake College library?
 ChesCat online catalog
 American National Biography
 Biography Resource Center on Maryland Digital Library
 Any of the above

5. Which of the following ways of incorporating an idea from a source into your paper sees you express that entire idea in your own words?
 Copy and paste
 Quote
 Summarize
 Paraphrase

6. To incorporate source material into your paper, you can 1) quote; 2) summarize; or  3) paraphrase an idea from that source. In which case or cases must you document the source of this "borrowed" idea  on your Works Cited page?
 3 only
 1 and 2 only
 2 and 3 only
 1, 2 and 3

7. Which is an inappropriate source for information of academic quality?
 A web page created by college sophomores.
 A web page with no identified author, publisher, or organization.
 A book written for ninth graders..
 All of the above

8. Your source says that Benjamin Franklin suffered many second thoughts on the wisdom of issuing the Declaration of Independence on the precise date it was issued. You summarize this thought in your paper, but you fail to credit its source on your Works Cited page. You've committed what major academic infraction?
 Illogical thinking
 Plagiarism
 Intellectual fabrication
 Academic identity theft

9. Which is not part of a citation on a Works Cited page for a journal article found in an electronic database?
 Author's name
 Student's e-mail address
 Publication date
 Name of the library the student used

Once you clicked the SUBMIT button below, you've COMPLETED this module.

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