INF 100 - Seventh Assignment


Required Readings and Preparation:

Carefully read Chapter 7 in Introduction to Information Research, "Evaluating and Citing Information Sources," pages 117-135.

Read this guide to avoiding plagiarism, from Indiana University:
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/wts/plagiarism.html

Review your class notes, homework assignments, and the entirety of the course text to prepare for the final exam.

Assignment based on the above preparation:

Please answer the following ten questions in the form provided. Your answers will be emailed to the instructor. Each question is worth five points.

Your name:

Your email address:

From the reading in An Introduction to Information Research:

What is the difference between scholarly and general sources?

How can scholarly sources also be access tools?

How can you use information in a web page's URL for clues about its authority?

Give the citation for An introduction to An Introduction to Information Research in APA format. Indicate italics with an "i" in brackets, like this: [i], on both sides of the text you want in italics.

Choose one of the study questions from the end of the chapter and answer it here. Indicate which question you are answering.

Questions based on previous chapters of An Introduction to Information Research:

Choose a study question from the end of Chapter 3, "How Information is Presented," on page 57, and answer it here. Indicate which question you are answering.

Choose a study question from the end of Chapter 4, "Analyzing a Research Topic," and answer it here. Indicate which question you are answering.

Choose a study question from the end of Chapter 5, "Making the Systems Work," and answer it here. Indicate which question you are answering.

From the reading on plagiarism:

What are three basic strategies for avoiding plagiarism?

Why do you need to distinguish between facts that are and are not common knowledge?

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