SGO-Research Pre-Test

What do we call a rewording of something written or spoken by someone else?

• Credibility
• Paraphrasing
• Direct Quoting

The way you tell your readers that certain material in your work came from another source is called...

• Stealing
• Cinematic/Cinema
• Citing/citations

If you are doing a research report on types of vaccines used in the USA, which of the sources below would be the most reliable?

• A math textbook from England
• A nonfiction book published in 1989
• A digital encyclopedia page that was last updated in 2023

True or False: Social media (like Tiktok, Facebook, Instagram) is a credible source for research

• True
• False

The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own is known as...

• Borrowing
• Plagiarism
• Acceptable

Which one of the following would be a characteristic of a non-credible website?

• Name of the author/publisher is listed
• The website has cited its sources
• There are a lot of advertisements on the page

True or False: A credible source is one that is written by someone who is an expert in their topic and it is free of errors and bias

• True
• False

True or False: Everything on the internet is true and accurate

• True
• False

True or False: Google is not a source, it is a search engine

• True
• False

Which source would be the MOST credible when researching a historical event like World War II?

• A blog created by a 12 year old
• A video created by a kindergarten teacher
• A website created by a history professor from Harvard University