SECTION A: RESEARCH REPORT EXAMPLE QUESTION

1. Which of the following activities is an example of secondary research?

a) Writing an email to an expert in the field
b) Reading and providing a critique of an article
c) Conducting a questionnaire to gather data
d) Visiting a job site

2. Which of the following readers would be described as a lay reader?

a) An Electrical Engineer reading IEEE.
b) An accounting lecturer reading The Economist.
c) A medical doctor reading The Journal of Interior Design
d) An English language teacher reading The Journal of Phonetics and Phonology.

3. A copy of a speech given by an important person X who was a key player in history is
a:
a) Valid source
b) Invalid Source
c) Reliable source
d) Primary source
e) Secondary source

SECTION B: APA FORMATTING AND STYLE EXAMPLE QUESTION

 MCQS ON APA FORMAT/STYLE

1. Choose the correct format for citing personal communication:

a) (R. Cole, personal communication, September 8, 2019)
b) (Cole, personal communication, September 8, 2019)
c) (R. Cole, email, September 8, 2019)

2. In-text citations to paraphrased text must provide page/paragraph numbers:

a) True
b) False, though the APA rules allow authors to provide them

3. The year of publication should be included in parentheses after an author's name

whenever the author is named in the text. For example: "Lastname (year) argued that..."
a) True
b) False

4. Where are in-text citations placed in an APA Style report?

a) At the bottom of each page
b) In round brackets after quotations or paraphrases
c) In the reference list
d) After the closing punctuation mark at the end of a sentence

 OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS ON APA REFERENCING

1
Write a complete reference as it would appear in a reference list using the details below.

- Title: A variational pragmatic analysis of the speech act

of complaint focusing on Alexandrian and Najdi Arabic
- Year :2021
- Author: Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs , Mervat M. Ahmed
- Pages: 120-138
- Journal Title: Journal of Pragmatics
- Volume: 181
- Issue: 2

SECTION C: SOURCE EVALUATION

 MCQS ON SOURCE EVALUATION

1. Which of the following is an example of bias?

a) An article by Microsoft claiming PowerPoint is the best presentation software
b) An article by a scientist about a research procedure
c) An article by a professor about the history of the internet
d) An article by an architect on the built environment

2. When you are testing to find out if the website you are using has the most up to date
information, you are testing for:
a) Purpose
b) Currency
c) Authority
d) Relevancy

3. _________ refers to who produced your document or where it came from.

a) Validity
b) Reliability
c) Relevance

4. Which of the following is NOT a common criterion for evaluating a source for
inclusion in course paper or bibliography?

a) Currency
b) Interest
c) Authority
d) Perspective or bias
 5.  A website is biased when:

a) it gives information about religious practices

b) it is accurate and factual
c) the author is a expert on the subject
d) it contains opinion instead of fact and is prejudiced and not impartial

6. When evaluating a website, the word current means:

a) up to date
b) down to earth
c) electrically charged
d) outmoded and obsolete

 SUMMARY PARAPHRASING

Paraphrase the following paragraph.

The University's 250 acre campus was recently listed in the top ten most beautiful universities in
Britain by The Telegraph.  It is a campus that is expanding and improving all the time with our
most recent investments being in the planned building of a brand new multi-million pound sports
centre, a redeveloped library with a cultural hub and a brand new student hub housed in the iconic
Aston Webb building.

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