Module 5 Quiz: Citing Sources

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 Which one of these is NOT a common style guide for formatting source citations?
MLA
APA
Library of Congress Classification System
Turabian
 
 Which of these is NOT good advice to avoid plagiarism?
Use your own ideas
Use quotations sparingly, and only to support your own ideas
Do not take notes on your reading
Organize your paper first, then insert the ideas of others
 
 "Plagiarism" is from Greek and Latin terms meaning what?
To purchase without a receipt given
To kidnap
To curse with the plague
 
 Buying a paper from someone is not strictly plagiarism since you have purchased its copyright.
True
False
 
 The information that you DO NOT need to include in your citation is:
Date
Author, if an author is named
Title
Call number
 
 Copyright protects all these sources EXCEPT:
Original creative works that have received legal recognition as copyrighted
Books that are in public domain
Intellectual property that is within the legal time limitations
Music that is legally registered as copyrighted
 
 You don't need to credit someone's ideas as long as you change some of their words.
True
False
True, but you should notify the author
True, as long as the idea is just common sense
 
 The style guide called APA stands for:
Association of Paper Archivists
American Psychological Association
American Psychoanalytic Association
Association of Psychologists and Analysts
 
 What does "public domain" mean?
A work without copyright restrictions
A work with only one edition
Only the government has the right to print it
 
 If the U.S. government is the publisher, the material is not protected by copyright.
True
False
 

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