Understanding Scholarly Research

Understanding Scholarly Research
Understanding Scholarly Research
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1. Which of the following two choices are NOT part of the main guidelines to use when evaluating a website? (Choose 2)
a. Accuracy
b. Authority
c. Coverage
d. Status
e. Currency
f. Subjectivity
g. Objectivity
2. If you can’t find any contact information or copyright information on a website, which of the main guidelines below is most seriously put into question?
a. Accuracy
b. Authority
c. Coverage
d. Status
e. Currency
f. Subjectivity
g. Objectivity
3. Which choice below must be considered most carefully with a website (which contains no advertising) that claims the NASA lunar missions were all a hoax?
a. Accuracy
b. Authority
c. Coverage
d. Status
e. Currency
f. Subjectivity
g. Objectivity
4. Say a website contains several links to related sites on the bottom of the page. You click on each one of those links and you find they are dead links. Which main guideline is put into question now?
a. Accuracy
b. Authority
c. Coverage
d. Status
e. Currency
f. Subjectivity
g. Objectivity
5. Say you were doing some research on IV infusion pumps and you found a site that had plenty of pictures of IV pumps, but no references or related links to other pages. Which of the main guidelines is put into question here?a. Accuracy b. Authority c. Coverage d. Status e. Currency f. Subjectivity g. Objectivity
The GCU has over 30,000 books on file that you may access. Go to the GCU Library page and click on the link Find Books & More. Find the book “The New Iraq” by Joseph Braude. Once you find it, click on the link View eResource to open an electronic copy of the book. Looking at the Table of Contents, what are the four themes in this book?
a. Accuracy, Coverage, Status, and Authority
b. Lust, Greed, Power, and Lies
c. Truth, Error, Lies, and Politics
d. Memory, Power, Money, Truth