Week Three Skill Activity

Complete the activity on the skill-building materials assigned for the week.

Question 1.Magazines and newspapers are scholarly sources 

•   True
• False

Question 2.Popular Resources are

•   non-scholarly   
•   general interest publications   
•   magazines and newspapers   
•   all of the above   

Question 3.The folly of Jim Crow: Rethinking the segregated South, which is a collection of writings by professional historians and was published by Texas A&M University Press is an example of a popular resource. 

•   True
• False   

Question 4.Peer review is a means of quality control for scholarly journal articles and books. 

•   True
• False   

Question 5.Scholarly sources are often peer reviewed 

•   True
• False   

Question 6.Peer reviewed means that the author’s friends and family members read over the article or book and they all said that they liked it.

•   True
• False

Question 7.Scholarly sources are reviewed by editors to look for spelling and grammar errors but the information contained in them is not reviewed for reliability

•   True
• False   

Question 8.Scholarly sources often do not contain

•   formal, technical language   
•   charts or graphs   
•   informal language   
•   bibliographies or reference lists 

Question 9.Which of these is a scholarly source?

•   “Johns Hopkins mistakenly tells 294 rejected applicants they are admitted” in the Washington Post   
•   “There’s Even More Plastic on the Ocean Floor than on Its Surface” in Newsweek   
•   “Russia Panics Ahead Of Economic Turmoil” in the Huffington Post   
•   “Beyond the City: Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty in Rural America” in the Journal of Policy History

Question 10.Question :Popular resources usually include citations and reference lists 

•   True
• False