Freshman Seminar 1000: Pre-test

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1. Which of the following would you use to find a book in the Library?

Electronic Resources

Online Catalog

Internet

Google

2. An article citation usually includes which of the following information?

The author

The date of publication

The title

Volume and issue number

All of the above

None of the above

3. Relevance ranking in library databases allows you to do which of the following:

Sort the articles by importance

Sort the articles by date published

Sort the articles by length

4. Which of the following are useful criteria when evaluating Internet web sites for academic research?

Who the author is

Determining if there are any biases

How current the information is

All of the above

5. Books are arranged in the Library according to:

The subject of the book

The title of the book

The size of the book

The author of the book

6. If a journal article is available in a database in html or pdf, this means:

The article is more important than others

You will only be able to read the summary of the article

You will need to purchase the article

You can read the entire article

7. If you needed to find 5 articles for writing your paper it would be best to:

Use an electronic resource

Use the Internet

Use the online catalog

Use an encyclopedia

8. The research paper topic you are given is “Do teen magazines contribute to eating disorders among teenagers?” If you were searching an electronic resource for articles on this topic, which of the following would be the best strategy?

magazines and eating disorders

teenagers and magazines and eating disorders

teenagers and weight loss

9. Subject headings are useful because:

They can help you to avoid plagiarism

They can lead you to other sources on the same topic

They can be used to evaluate website information

They can help you sort your results

10. If your search strategy does not retrieve the results you hoped for, you should first try:

Using a different electronic resource

Searching the Internet

Using different keywords

Finding a different book

11. How many research papers did you write in high school?

0

1

2-3

4 or more

12. How many times have you been to UNCP’s library?

Never

Once

Twice

Three times

More than three times