Author: Bill Badke
Company: TWU

RES 490 K Assignments

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Please complete the following assignment questions using the course website as your guide.  When you are done, send this assignment document to me at badke@twu.ca.  Please do not work together with other students.  It is very important that you find the answers yourself.
Due date: November 28, 2018

1.	Lesson One Questions

a. What are the main features of education in "traditional society?"

b. How important is memorization in Western education?

c. In Western education is knowledge a goal or a tool?

d. Name three things that are important for Western students to do.

e. What is "critical thinking?"

f. If the first step in critical thinking is to ask a good question, what are the next three steps?

g. In critical thinking, who makes the final decision, you or your professor?

i. How did the Bereans in Acts show critical thinking?

2.	Lesson Two Questions
 a. What is the purpose of book classification?
b. How does a library classification system organize books?
(   ) By size
(    ) By age of the book
(    ) By topic
c. The library has the following in electronic format (choose one below)
(     ) Books
(     ) Journal articles
(     ) Reference books
(     ) All three of above

d. What is a reference book?

e. How can a Research Guide help you?

f. In the OneSearch box, what tab will help you find special article databases?

g. What will you find in Search Everything?

h. What is interlibrary loan?

i. What are research tutorials?

3.	Lesson Three Questions
a. What can you find when you use the Search Everything tab? (List three kinds of information)

b. What three kinds of searches can you do in the main search box? (Hint: One of the three is Keyword; what are the other two?)

c. What information will Journal Finder give you?

d. Under which tab will you find a link to the “How to OneSearch” guide?

e. When you do a Search Everything search, what are three choices you have to limit your results under “Limit to” in the left column? (One of these is "Scholarly/Peer Reviewed Journals; what are two others?)

4.	Lesson Four Questions

a. What tab do you use in OneSearch if you only want to search for books?

b. How do you limit to only print books or only e-books?

c. If you use Subject Headings, will you get more results or fewer results?

d. If you use Subject Headings, will your results be more relevant or less relevant?

e. If a book is in paper format, what number will tell you where to find it?

f. How can you create a proper citation to a book you have found in your results?

5.	Lesson Five Questions

a. Name four ways that journal articles are different from books.

b. What are two ways to limit your search results?

c. What does the Cite link do?

e. What tab on the OneSearch box will lead you to databases on specialized topics?

f. What is the title of the column that links to the most important subject databases for each subject?

g. Do all the subject databases search in the same way as Library OneSearch?   (    ) yes     (    ) no

h. How do you create a formatted citation in ATLA Religion Database?

i. How do you create a formatted citation in JSTOR?

6.	Lesson Six Questions
a. Why should a topic be narrow?

(   ) So you don't have to write so much
(    ) So your professor will understand what you are writing
(    ) So that you can deal with your topic in depth
(   ) A topic does not need to be narrow

b. What is a research question?

c. If the problem you were trying to address was the interpretation of "baptism for the dead" in I Corinthians 15, what is a research question you could ask?

d. What are the three main parts of a research paper?

e. Why is plagiarism such a bad thing?

f. I have a book citation below in several forms.  Which is correct for Turabian Notes or Humanities format for a research paper bibliography?
(     ) William Badke, Project Earth: Preserving the World God Created. Portland, OR: Multnomah, 1991.
(     ) Badke, William. Project Earth: Preserving the World God Created. Portland, OR: Multnomah, 1991.
(     ) Badke, William. Project earth: preserving the world God created. Portland, OR: Multnomah, 1991.
(     ) Badke, William. Project Earth: Preserving the World God Created. Portland, OR: Multnomah, 1991.

g. I have an article citation below in several forms.  Which is correct for Turabian Notes or Humanities format? (Choose One)
(     ) William Badke. "Mythbusting: Seven Google Myths that Complicate Our Lives." Online Searcher 38, no. 3 (May-June, 2014): 23-26.
(     )  Badke, William. Mythbusting: Seven Google myths that complicate our lives. Online Searcher 38, no. 3 (May-June, 2014): 23-26.
(     ) Badke, William. "Mythbusting: Seven Google Myths that Complicate Our Lives." Online Searcher 38, no. 3 (May-June, 2014): 23-26.
(     ) Badke, William. 2014. "Mythbusting: Seven Google Myths that Complicate Our Lives." Online Searcher 38, no. 3: 23-26.