Citation Quiz
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110
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Arts Humanities
Date
Jan 9, 2024
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Overall Grade (Highest Attempt)
9 / 10 - 90 %
Question 1
1 / 1 point
1.Citation style is determined by:
Individual instructors
Geographic areas
Disciplines or fields of study
None of the above
Feedback:
Correct. Citation style is determined by disciplines or fields of study. The APUS Library has a guide to citation style for most of the university's programs.
Question 2
1 / 1 point
An in-text citation is a shortened version of the full bibliographic reference to refer the reader to the correct entry.
Question options:
True
False
Feedback:
Correct. The in-text citation tells the reader what/who the source is. The full bibliographic entry (at the end of the paper) tells the reader how to find that source.
Question 3
1 / 1 point
The university's writing lab in the APUS Library contains information on which of the following styles?
Chicago style
MLA style
APA style
All of the above
Feedback:
Correct. The university's writing lab in the APUS Library contains information on all these styles, plus the Blue Book style and more.
Question 4
1 / 1 point
Which of the following set of definitions is correct?
Quoting is using the author's actual words; paraphrasing is putting the author's words in a single paragraph; summarizing is using the author's ideas but your own words in a condensed form.
Quoting is using the author's actual words; paraphrasing is using the author's ideas but your own words; summarizing is using the author's ideas but your own words in a condensed form.
Quoting is using synonyms for the author's actual words; paraphrasing is using the author's ideas but your own words; summarizing is combining the author's ideas with your own words.
Feedback:
Correct. Quoting is using the author's actual words; paraphrasing is using the author's ideas but your own words; summarizing is using the author's ideas but your own words in a condensed form.
Question 5
1 / 1 point
Which of the following apply to using direct quotations in a paper?
All quoted material should be enclosed in quotation marks unless set off from the rest of the text as an indented block.
Quoted material should be an accurate, word-for-word copy of the original. If anything was changed, brackets or ellipsis marks should show where correction or omission occurred.
Each quotation should be put in context.
All of the above.
Feedback:
Correct. All of these apply.
Question 6
1 / 1 point
According to Writing@apus, style guides are which of the following?
Used solely to avoid plagiarism by giving credit to authors.
Used to provide standards and consistency.
Contain editorial and citation/documentation elements.
None of the above.
B and C above.
feedback
Correct. Style guides are used for much more than avoiding plagiarism. They work to provide a consistent, uniform way of presenting ideas and research to help make it readable for professional and academic settings.
Question 7
1 / 1 point
The phrase "MLA" stands for:
Model Linguistic Analysis
Modern Language Association
Multiple Language Assimilation
Multiple Lingual Analysis
feedback
Correct. MLA stands for Modern Language Association, which publishes an editorial guide for the presentation of scholarly manuscripts and student research papers. MLA style is mostly used in the Humanities, especially in literature and composition.
Question 8
1 / 1 point
The APA style requires the year of publication to be used in the in-text citations because the date of the information is very important in the fields of education and social science.
True
False
feedback
Correct.
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Question 9
0 / 1 point
APA in-text citations typically do not have a comma between the author and date, like this: (Brown 2019).
True
False
feedback
Sorry. APA in-text citations typically do have a comma between the author and date, like this: (Brown, 2019).
Question 10
1 / 1 point
Which of the following uses a hanging indent for the final reference list:
MLA
APA
Both A and B
feedback
Correct. Both MLA and APA use a hanging indent for the final reference list.