English
1302: Practice Quiz- Answer Key
Q 1. Common knowledge is information that is widely known within a society or an intellectual community; therefore, if you include common knowledge in your paper, you do not need to cite where you found that information.
Answer Yes or No to the following questions: 1. In a high school class on American government, you learned about the checks-and-balances system of government, which separates power into the Judicial, Executive, and Legislative branches. Now, you are writing a paper for an introductory political science class and you mention the concept of checks-and-balances you learned in high school. Should you cite your old high school textbook? No 2. You do most of your research online and find lots of interesting websites, from which you quote several passages. After you write the first draft, you ask your older and more experienced room-mate if he knows how to cite websites. He says that websites are in the public domain and constitute common knowledge, therefore they do not need to be cited. Is this true? No
Adapted from: https://www.amherst.edu/campuslife/deanstudents/acadhonesty/
Q 2. Using parenthetical citations correctly Identify the correct parenthetical citation for this source Tannen, D. (1998). The argument culture. Toronto: Random House.
a) Every issue we see discussed on television appears to be set up as an argument:
“In the argument culture, criticism, attack, or opposition are the predominant if not the only ways of responding to people or ideas” (Tannen, 1998, p. 7).
b) Every issue we see discussed on television appears to be set up as an argument:
“In the argument culture, criticism, attack, or opposition are the predominant if not the only ways of responding to people or ideas” (p. 7).
c) Every issue we see discussed on television appears to be set up as an argument:
“In the argument culture, criticism, attack, or opposition are the predominant if not the only ways of
Q 1. Common knowledge is information that is widely known within a society or an intellectual community; therefore, if you include common knowledge in your paper, you do not need to cite where you found that information.
Answer Yes or No to the following questions: 1. In a high school class on American government, you learned about the checks-and-balances system of government, which separates power into the Judicial, Executive, and Legislative branches. Now, you are writing a paper for an introductory political science class and you mention the concept of checks-and-balances you learned in high school. Should you cite your old high school textbook? No 2. You do most of your research online and find lots of interesting websites, from which you quote several passages. After you write the first draft, you ask your older and more experienced room-mate if he knows how to cite websites. He says that websites are in the public domain and constitute common knowledge, therefore they do not need to be cited. Is this true? No
Adapted from: https://www.amherst.edu/campuslife/deanstudents/acadhonesty/
Q 2. Using parenthetical citations correctly Identify the correct parenthetical citation for this source Tannen, D. (1998). The argument culture. Toronto: Random House.
a) Every issue we see discussed on television appears to be set up as an argument:
“In the argument culture, criticism, attack, or opposition are the predominant if not the only ways of responding to people or ideas” (Tannen, 1998, p. 7).
b) Every issue we see discussed on television appears to be set up as an argument:
“In the argument culture, criticism, attack, or opposition are the predominant if not the only ways of responding to people or ideas” (p. 7).
c) Every issue we see discussed on television appears to be set up as an argument:
“In the argument culture, criticism, attack, or opposition are the predominant if not the only ways of