Humanities QnA guidelines

📔In this guide, we’re going to go over some common types of QnA solutions and
how to format solutions. We’ll start by going over some basic guidelines to keep in
mind:

❖ Avoid quoting directly from the textbook or any internet source when at
all possible. Quoting directly from the textbook puts the company at risk of
copyright violation, so it is important that solutions are written in your own
words. Quote only from the textbook when it is essential for answering the
question, and when you do, try to quote no more than one sentence. Put the
quoted material in quotation marks followed by the page number from which
it was taken in parentheses. For more details about the plagiarism issue,
please consult Appendix A of this document.

❖ Explain your answer in a concise manner, and try to avoid making your
answers too long. Include only information and explanation that is relevant to
the question being asked and provide a precise answer. Most questions can
be answered in three paragraphs or fewer.

❖ Remember to break up your text because large pieces of text can be complex
for students to read.

❖ When working on questions with one final, direct answer (multiple choice
questions, true or false questions, or fill-in-the-blank questions, for instance),
please put the final answer in the result cell. If the solution is longer than one
sentence, or there is no one unique answer, in the result cell goes the phrase
“See the explanation.”
Writing questions

❖ When writing questions, you need to make sure that the questions are
well-written, which means that they have to be structured and without
grammatical errors

❖ You need to skip the questions that require 30 mins or more to answer

❖ If you see a question that is not properly structured in the spreadsheet, feel
free to rewrite the question and make it clear and concise

❖ When writing multiple choice questions, you have to break all the choices in
different rows

❖ When you ask the question, there is no need to use the Katex/Markdown code
or color, plain black text is suffiecient in the field of Humanities and Social
Sciences

❖ If you see that a question is repeated or very similar, you do not need to write
again your solution. You can skip the question and move on to the next one
Writing answers

Example 1

Notes:

- this answer is very straight-to-the-point and provides the right amount of

explanation
- this question follows the SEO guidelines: the question is summarized in the first
row of the solution
- in the result cell stands the phrase “See the explanation.”, since this exercise is not
straightforward and multiple answers can be provided
- the text is divided into paragraphs
- key terms from the question are used also in the explanation
- key terms are written in bold
- the example of the matter is provided for a better understanding of the concept

Example 2

Note:

- this answer is very straight-to-the-point and provides the right amount of

explanation
- this solution provides all the necessary details needed for students to comprehend
the matter
- in the result cell stands the phrase “See the explanation.”, since this exercise is not
straightforward and multiple answers can be provided
- the text is divided into paragraphs
- key terms from the question are used also in the explanation
- key terms are written in bold
- this question follows the SEO guidelines: the question is summarized in the first
row of the solution

Example 3

Note:
- key terms from the question are used also in the explanation
- key terms are written in bold
- the text is divided into paragraphs
- in the result cell stands the correct answer to this question, since the question is
straightforward and there is only one correct answer

Example 4
 - in the result cell stands the word “True” since this is the only possible answer
to this question
- the answer is straight-to-the-point and provides the right amount of
explanation

*Appendix A
How to paraphrase

(Source: Guffey, 2016. Essentials of Business Communication)

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