CITATION QUIZ
PART ONE: Cite a Source
On a sheet of paper properly cite each of the following sources using an acceptable citation format. HINT: You may use the class website to help you with this assignment.
To find the stories, simply click on the blue links.
Note: When you use on-line sources that also have a print version, (e.g. Boston Globe / bostonglobe.com) cite the version you used, ie [ONLINE] or [PRINT].
However, since we are unable to reproduce books, magazines and similar works on an electronic medium, for the sake of getting practice citing print sources, use only the Web citation method if instructed. Otherwise, treat the source as if you were in the library and holding it in your hands.
Source 1: A news story (pick the day's top story) from the Daily Breeze website. (Citation for a Web source)
Source 2: A sports feature (pick the day's top sports story) from the Daily Breeze website. (Citation for a print source)
Source 3: Information associated with schoolnotes educational institution's Web site. (Citation for a Web source)
PART TWO: ETHICS QUIZ:
Number the back of your paper from
1-8.
Write your response (YES or NO) and your supporting arguments
for your answer on the paper. For full credit, you MUST have arguments
to support your points. You do NOT need to write the questions.
Knowledge Quiz
1. As you browse through a book dealing
with your topic, you come across a sentence that states very clearly
a point you would like to make in your term paper. You add the
sentence to your paper exactly as you see it and reference the
book. Later a friend tells you that you did not have to do that
for one meager sentence. You need only reference material when
you use a "substantial amount" from a book or article.
Is your friend correct?
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2. While surfing the web, you have come across some really
nice looking images that you would like to have on your homepage.
Is it all right to download any graphics you find on the internet?
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3. One of your class assignments is to view a video available
in the Media Resources Center of Carrier Library. After taking
the video home, you find that you don't have to time to view it
and make a copy for viewing at a later time. Is this OK?
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4. After browsing an article in a scholarly journal, you
decide that you would like to make a copy of the article to take
home and examine more closely for your research. Do you have to
get permission from the author or the journal to do so?
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5. You are using word processing software in one of the
campus computer labs and you decide that you would like to go
home and continue working on your own computer. However, you do
not like the word processor on your home computer. So, you copy
the word processor from the lab to several floppy diskettes and
take it home to load on your machine. Is this OK?
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6. Suppose you find a great article in a magazine and want
all your friends and acquaintences to read it. Is it fine to make
multiple copies (say 20 or 30 copies) and distribute them without
the author's or magazine's permission?
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7. As a favor to your dormitory, you check out a movie on
video from the Media Resources Center in Carrier Library and show
it during the evening in the lounge. Is it OK to do this?
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8. If you find a fact reported the same way in three different
sources, is it true that you don't have to document it because
it's "common knowledge?"
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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http://www.lib.jmu.edu/library/gold/mod7ethics.htm#ethics
http://www.lib.jmu.edu/library/gold/mod7ethics.htm
http://www.pgcc.edu/library/tutorial/evaluatequiz.htm
http://www.west.asu.edu/library/ole/quizzes/citingsourcesquiz.html
quiz to print
http://inflite.ulib.iupui.edu/citingindex.html unit on
citing sources
http://library.samford.edu/bilt/mod6/quiz/ online quiz