Instruction: Enter your name and course.

Instruction: Click on a radio button to choose the best item, as listed, for each of the following. Then, click the SUBMIT button.

1. (1 point) If your topic is vague, how might you best begin to focus your topic?

spend more hours searching the Web and getting lots of hits with some relevance to the topic
change topics
make a list of questions about aspects of the topic

2. (1 point) If you need more background information about your topic before you can start to write, which of these resources would you select?

Any or all of these
almanacs
Web sites
encyclopedias
books and magazines

3. (1 point) Which set below best represents the main concepts in the following sentence: What are the health risks associated with the use of anabolic steroids by women athletes?

women, females, girls
performance enhancing drugs, athletes, competitiveness
anabolic steroids, women athletes, health risks

4. (1 point) Which set below best represents a (partial) list of synonyms and related terms for the concept "college students"

students, university students, undergraduates, graduate students, freshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors...
colleges, universities, community colleges, schools, educational institutions...
young people, kids, youth, young adults, teenagers, twenty-year-olds...

5. (1 point) If you wanted to find books in the Valley Library, what research database would you search?

The library's online catalog called ValleySearch
The periodical index called Academic Search Elite
The library's online catalog

6. (1 point) In the OSU library catalog, you can identify whether we subscribe to a particular magazine or journal.

False
True

7. (1 point) A library catalog record for a book generally includes the "status" of an item. What does "status" mean?

Whether the book was peer reviewed
What floor the book is on in the library
Whether the book is checked out to someone else or available for use.

8. (1 point) A good database to use to find citations for articles from magazines or journals on many topics is:

A general periodical index, such as Academic Search Elite
The Library of Congress Call Number Directory
The library's catalog

9. (1 point) Which of the following is a record for a journal article?

10. (1 point) Anyone, from researchers to hobbyists to school children, can make information available on the Web.

true
false

11. (1 point) Using this result from a search engine, who is the "owner" of this web site?

a government agency
a business
some other type of organization
a college or university