Identify why it is important to carefully integrate the information from other sources into the sentences of a research paper.
A. Readers will be entertained if the sentences flow well.
B. Readers will find it easier to disagree with the main point of the research paper if the sentences don't flow well.
C. Readers could miss the writer's point if the information from other sources doesn't flow well.
D. Readers won't notice that the writer has used information from other sources if the sentences flow well.
The following list of potential topics includes three broad topics and one topic that is sufficiently narrowed. Which topic is narrow enough to use for a 3- to 5-page research paper?
A. water quality
B. tax laws
C. gambling
D. winter holidays in Japan
Summarizing a passage means
A. shortening the passage to just its main ideas.
B. shortening the passage to just key words.
C. lengthening the passage by adding new ideas.
D. keeping the passage the same length.
Identify what writers should do with outside sources when writing a research paper.
Writers should
A. copy the thesis statements of the original sources.
B. analyze the original sources and use them to support their own ideas.
C. read the original sources to get ideas but nothing else.
D. make the exact same arguments as the authors of the original sources.
Which question should writers ask themselves after completing a first draft of a summary?
A. Are there enough direct quotes in thissummary?
B. Did I include my own opinions about the text?
C. Does this summary have the exact same message as the text?
D. Is this summary long enough?
Paraphrasing a text means
A. lengthening the text by adding new ideas.
B. keeping the amount of text in the paraphrase about the same as the original source.
C. translating a text into another language.
D. shortening the text to just its main ideas.
In which situation would someone be most likely to find a summary?
A. in a television commercial
B. in a movie
C. in a book review
D. in a clothing catalogue
Identify the website that is most likely a reputable resource for a research paper about diabetes.
A. a site in which the author or sponsoring organization cannot be determined
B. a personal website ending in .com
C. an organization's site ending in .org
D. an organization's site ending in .com
When paraphrasing, writers must be careful not to
A. change the order of information from the original source.
B. use too many types of sentence structures that were not in the original.
C. change the meaning of the original source.
D. use too many of their own words.
Identify what it means to synthesize sources.
A. Writers ignore some sources completely.
B. Writers change the information from the sources so that it matches their arguments.
C. Writers replace their own arguments with pieces of information from different sources.
D. Writers take pieces of information from different sources and use them together with their own argument.
Identify the sentence that most likely comes from a research paper.
A. Laptop computers are more convenient than desktop computers.
B. While women often occupied the traditional role of healer, during the Middle Ages many of these healers and midwives were condemned as witches (Berman, Snyder, and McKinney 3).
C. Microwaves are the most convenient kitchen appliance because they are used for so many things.
D. The process of becoming a doctor is long anddifficult, but it is worth the effort.
When reading in order to summarize a source, what should readers do when they come across words that they do not know?
A. focus on the simplest sentences of the source
B. highlight the words that they do know
C. list the key vocabulary words they already know
D. look up the meaning of words they don't know