Ashford GEN103 2021 April Week 2 Quiz Latest

GEN103 Information Literacy

Week 2 Quiz   

Question 1Thomas and his wife recently separated, leaving Thomas with custody of his two small children.  He is struggling to handle work, care of his children, and school alone.  He found himself at the end of the class with a low grade and not having even started his final paper.  Thomas thought that there was no way he would be able to complete the paper on his own so he found a website that sells assignments, special ordered a paper to fit the requirements of the assignments, paid for it, and then turned it in as his own.  This is,

  not plagiarism because he was in a really difficult position.

  a type of plagiarism called sharing work (collusion).

  a type of plagiarism called improper citation.

  a type of plagiarism called purchasing.

 Question 2Common knowledge is anything that you knew when you started the course

  True

  False

 Question 3Submitting another student’s work as your own is,

  okay if the other students agrees to let you use it

  acceptable only if the other student is your spouse

  not a problem if the other students does not attend Ashford University

  a form of plagiarism and never acceptable

 Question 4Samuel is working on his annotated bibliography.  While writing his annotations, he copies and pastes materials from his sources into his annotations without using quotation marks.  This is

  nothing to worry about.  It’s clear from the reference above which source the material came from.

  just what everyone does when writing annotations.

  a great way to save time.

  an example of copy and paste plagiarism and not acceptable.

Question 5Making up a source or information in your paper is

  just a minor offense and not really plagiarism

  the best way to meet all of the requirements of an assignment

  plagiarism, which is a serious academic offense

  an acceptable way to make your instructor think that you put more work into your paper than you did

 Question 6Read the following excerpt.  What is wrong with the in-text citations?

Most codes neither are multi-dimensional nor provide the decision support mechanism necessary to address ambiguous and complex ethical dilemmas. They can also be too abstract and general to be useful. A professional code of ethics may be seen as irrelevant or not user friendly when writers have to make tough decisions about the right thing to do. As an example, some years ago the National Association of Social Workers’ code of ethics was rated as “increasing dissatisfaction” on issues “centering on the nature of the code itself, its level of abstraction and ambiguity, its scope and usefulness, and its provisions for the handling of ethical complaints.” Because society tends to accept popular writers’ faux pas, they have had little reason to be very concerned about ethics. Edgar Allan Poe was the first to observe that “when a plagiarism is detected, it generally happens that the public sympathy is with the plagiarist.” “It’s long been known,” writes Paul Collins, “that Poe plagiarized an early book . . . titled The Conchologist’s First Book, and that Herman Melville swiped many technical passages of Moby Dick whole from maritime authors like Henry Cheever.”

  The in-text citation should contain the authors’ last names’.

  The in-text citations should contain page number or paragraph numbers where the quotes can be found.

  The in-text citations should contain the years of publication.

  All of the above.  The in-text citations are completely missing.

The answer can be found in the In-Text Citation APA Skill Review

Question 7This is an example of common knowledge:  The sky is blue.

  True

  False

 Question 8What is wrong with this reference:

Kyriazoglou, J. Business management controls: a guide. Retrieved from https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.proxy-library.ashford.edu (Links to an external site.)

  nothing. 

  The URL (web address) should not be included in the reference.

  The year of publication is missing.

  The author’s first name should be written out.

Question 9Jennifer finished writing her discussion board post for the week and is ready to post it when she realizes that she forgot to use one of the required resources.  She is exhausted and has to get up early in the morning for work so she decides to stick the in-text citation for the source she forgot at the end of one of her paragraphs and put the reference for the source with the other references at the bottom of her post.  This is,

  completely understandable.  Sometimes, we are all short of time, exhausted and take shortcuts.  It’s not a big deal.

  not an issue because her instructor probably won’t notice that she didn’t actually use information from that source in her discussion board post.

  an example of plagiarism (fabrication) because she has indicated that she used a source in her post that she didn’t use.

  a good time saving method

 

Question 10Read the following excerpt.  What is wrong with the in-text citation?

To establish some common ground, definitions of ethics and morality are offered. Ethics is defined as theories or concepts about what guides positive or negative behavior and defines what is good and bad—the study of morality. A descriptive definition of ethics asks what ought to be right, while a normative definition asks what behaviors are right or good. Morality is a more ambiguous term. It is the effort to guide one’s conduct by reason—while giving equal weight to the interests of each individual who is affected by that conduct (The Elements of Moral Philosophy, 1999).

  Nothing. The in-text citation is correct.

  The in-text citation should contain the author’s last name instead of the title of the book.

  The in-text citation should not have the year of publication.

  The in-text citation should contain the author’s first initial and last name.

Question 11What is wrong with this reference:

Musil, Steven. (2018, October 11). Google Doodle honors baseball great and humanitarian Roberto Clemente. CNET. Retrieved from https://www.cnet.com/news/google-doodle-honors-baseball-great-and-humanitarian-roberto-clemente/ (Links to an external site.)

  nothing.  It is correct.

  The URL (web address) should not be included in the reference.

  The date of publication is missing.

  The author’s first name should not be written out.

Question 12Copying only a part of another students’ work and turning it in as your own work is

  plagiarism and never acceptable

  ok if it’s only a discussion board post and not an assignment

  not a problem as long as it’s 10% or less of your paper

  fine only if the other student agrees to let you use it

Question 13If you use someone’s else work word-for-word in your work,

  that is a quote

  you must put quotation marks at the beginning and end of the material

  immediately after the material, you must put a citation to indicate where you found the material

  all of these

Question 14Jackie is writing a research paper for a history class.  She carefully reads over an important, four-paragraph section of a scholarly article.  Then she summarizes the author’s point in two sentences, puts an in-text citation after it and the reference for the article at the end of her paper.  This is,

  copy and paste plagiarism

  not plagiarism.  Jackie put the information into her own words and then correctly cited and referenced the source.

  find and replace plagiarism

  fabrication

Question 15Read the following excerpt.  What is wrong with the in-text citation?

To establish some common ground, definitions of ethics and morality are offered. Ethics is defined as theories or concepts about what guides positive or negative behaviour and defines what is good and bad—the study of morality. A descriptive definition of ethics asks what ought to be right, while a normative definition asks what behaviours are right or good. Morality is a more ambiguous term. It is the effort to guide one’s conduct by reason—while giving equal weight to the interests of each individual who is affected by that conduct (Rachels, The Elements of Moral Philosophy, 1999).

  Nothing. The in-text citation is correct.

  The in-text citation should contain the author’s first initial also.

  The in-text citation should not have the year of publication.

  The in-text citation should not have title of the book in it.

Question 16Based on the reference, what type of source is this?

United States Department of Education. (n.d.). Teaching our youngest: a guide for preschool teachers and child care and family providers. Retrieved from https://www2.ed.gov/teachers/how/early/teachingouryoungest/page_pg4.html (Links to an external site.)

  an eBook

  a web page

  a scholarly article

  none of these

Question 17In-text citations must appear in the text of your paper or discussion board post for which of these:

  paraphrased information

  summarized information

  quoted information

  all of these

Question 18Erica is writing her discussion board post for this week. After writing her whole post, she realizes that she forgot to put in the in-text citations.  She knows that she used all three of the required resources but she can’t remember what information came from which source so she just puts the in-text citations for the three different sources at the end of three different, random paragraphs.  This is,

  copy and paste plagiarism

  find and replace plagiarism

  self-plagiarism

 improper citation

Question 19Four common types of plagiarism are

 copy and paste, improper citation, find and replace, and fabrication

  copy and paste, paraphrasing with citation, sharing work, and fabrication

  improper citation, copy and paste, using library sources, fabrication

  improper citation, using internet sources, sharing work, fabrication.

Question 20Alonzo is writing his discussion board post for the week.  He reads the required resource, an article, and thinks about how it relates to the main topic of the discussion board. He picks out a two-sentence section from the article, copies and pastes it into his post, and puts quotation marks around it. Then he puts an in-text citation after it and the reference for the article at the end of his post.  This is

  not plagiarism. Alonzo has used a quote from the article and has corrected cited and referenced it.

  a type of plagiarism called improper citation.

  a type of plagiarism called copy and paste plagiarism.

  not a big deal because it’s just a discussion board post.