Assignment title: Information


1. If you were researching the relationship between legalizing marijuana and car accidents, which of the following kinds of potentially useful information could you reasonably expect to find in scholarly books? · Year-to-date statistics of fatal accidents on interstate highways · An overview of the effects on the brain of chemical substances like alcohol · An in-depth look at how legalizing marijuana has impacted driving safety in the Netherlands, where marijuana use has long been decriminalized · Recent statements by Dutch politicians arguing for a crackdown on marijuana use · Memes associated with a current campaign to legalize recreational use of marijuana 2. Match the top-level domain, or extension, to an organization that might use it. .Edu .Gov .Mil .Cat .Org a. A university offering an online-only degree b. A tourist site promoting Catalan cultural activities c. A dating service that costs over $1,000 a year to subscribe to d. A government agency that regulates food and drugs e. The U.S. Air Force 3. Arrange these research topics from the least specific to the most specific (1- 5, 1 for the least and 5 the most specific) · Muslims in France · French attitudes toward immigrant Muslim populations · Differences in social attitudes among France's immigrant Muslim population and members of the country's dominant religion (Catholicism) · Psychological effects on French Muslim women of the 2010 ban on wearing the hijab in public places · French attitudes toward immigrant Muslim populations 4. Of the following types of information, which one does NOT need to be cited: a) A word-for-word quotation from The New York Times online about Affordable Care Act.. b) A photograph of George Washington in Encyclopedia Britannica. c) A paragraph you wrote summarizing information from a Newsweek article about bioengineered food. d) Result of your physic lab.. 5. Is this a plagiarism? George Washington is the first president of the United States a) Yes b) No 6. What are some helpful ways to choose a research topic? a. Reading general topic overviews. b. Ignoring all related topics that might come up as you ask research questions. c. Asking open-ended questions. d. Letting one question lead to another until you find something you're genuinely curious about. e. Narrowing down to a single research question as quickly as possible. 7. Direct quotes will likely dilute, or weaken, your voice if . . . a. You use them in every other sentence b. You don't include specific page numbers in your citation c. They are very long and nondescript d. You take them only from sources you consider credible e. don't reproduce them in their entirety, with all the context that's available in the original 8. Choose a database to do some background research about Barak Obama. Choose an article about Obama and give the MLA citation for the article. 9. Choose a database to find the latest news about the Ukrainian protests. Sort your result list by most recent first.