Cite Your Sources Quiz

What is a citation?

• The last page of any written document

• Identifies for the reader the original source for an idea, information, or image that is referred to in a work

• A traffic ticket

• The paragraph in between the introduction and the conclusion of an essay

What is a credible source?

• sources written by authors respected in their fields of study (e.g. doctors, university researchers, scientists, etc)

• sources written by students or people with strong opinions about a topic

• sources written by news commentators who are not experts on a topic but still enough about a topic

• sources written by musicians or artists who have had experiences with issues relating to such topics

What is a primary source?

• The most important source

• A document that was written by the president of the United States

• Information that has been passed down from person-to-person

• It is information that is shown for the first time or original materials on which other research is based.

What is a secondary source?

• A source that documents what is happening right at that moment

• A source more important than all sources

• A source that describes or explains primary sources (e.g. summaries, interpretations)

• A source that is not as important that is written by the second person in a line

What is a citation generator?

• A web tool that lets you input information from a written document that helps generate a citation

• A type of tool that is used to generate heat for mechanical use

• A type of generation of people who use to gather information for the secret service

• A tool used to help generate legal documents from an online encyclopedia database

What is the name of the citation generating tool we always use in my class?

What are examples of credible sources?

Type TRUE or FALSE: Wikipedia is a credible source

A biography about Abraham Lincoln

• Primary source

• Secondary source

The Declaration of Independence

• Secondary source

• Primary source