Research Skills and Citing Sources

Which is NOT something you should ask to determine if a source is reliable?

• Who wrote it?

• Are there citations?

• What was the author's purpose?

• Are there pictures?

When copying something word for word, use ___.

• exclamation marks

• commas

• quotation marks

• parentheses

Your works cited page (bibliography) should be in ____ order.

• alphabetical

• chronological

• random

• numerical

In order to avoid plagiarism, you should always _____.

• give credit to the person who created the material you are using

• change a few words so it isn't technically word-for-word

• hope nobody checks to find out it isn't your own original work

Which citation style is acceptable for this class?

• MLA

• APA

• Chicago Style

When creating an in-text citation, what should you do?

• Give the author's last name.

• Give the page number of a magazine article.

• Hyperlink websites.

• All of these.