Library Instruction Pre-Assessment
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1. The following is to assess your library and information knowledge.

2. What does peer-reviewed mean? How do you find peer-reviewed articles, journals?

3. Please visit the following website: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126082343.htm
Could the following site be used if your professor asked only for peer-reviewed, scholarly sources?

4. Please use the following citation to answer the first four questions:

Matich, A. (2007, December). Performance-enhancing Drugs and Supplements in Women and Girls. Current Sports Medicine Reports, 6(6), 387-391. Retrieved February 15, 2009, from SPORTDiscus with Full Text database.

5. Internet Evaluation

Open up a separate web browser and please type (or copy and paste) in the following addresses. Once on each site, please evaluate the site and determine which sites are real and which are fake. Type "true" or "fake" next to each address below.

6. Plagiarism

Please take a look at the following passage:

Still, the telephone was only a convenience, permitting Americans to do more casually and with less effort what they had already been doing before.

Reference: Boorstin, Daniel J. The Americans: The Democratic Experience, page 390

Now determine which of the following student passages are cited correctly and which are plagiarized.

Student Passage 1:
The telephone was a convenience, enabling Americans to do more casually and with less effort what they had already been doing before.

Student Passage 2:
Daniel J. Boorstin argues that the telephone was only a convenience, permitting Americans to do more casually and with less effort what they had already been doing before

Student Passage 3:
Daniel J. Boorstin has noted that most Americans considered the telephone as simply "a convenience," an instrument that allowed them "to do more casually and with less effort what they had already been doing before."1

1 Boorstin, Daniel J. The Americans: The Democratic Experience, page 390.

   


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