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Mastering Documentation Styles Quiz

Welcome to the Mastering Documentation Styles Quiz! This quiz is designed to assess your understanding of various documentation styles including MLA, APA, Chicago, and IEEE. Test your knowledge on when to cite sources, how to format references, and the rules surrounding quotations.

Prepare to dive into the following topics:

Documentation systems and their specific uses
Quotations and citations guidelines
Common practices in academic writing

20 Questions5 MinutesCreated by CitingWriter23

Which statement about documentation of facts is accurate?

Any fact in your paper must be documented;

Any facts included in a paper should be placed in quotation marks

Facts that represent new information in a particular field of study need to be documented

No fact in your paper must be documented

Which of the following statements about documentation is true?

Because it is difficult to pinpoint the origin of a broad idea, ideas that are not quoted do not need to be documented;

Your own ideas must be documented

Subjective information from sources, such as the interpretation or opinion of a writer, must be documented.

Common knowledge facts need to be documented

In which system is the reference made: “Several recent studies [3, 4, 15, 22] have suggested that. . . .”

MLA

IEEE

APA

Chicago

Which statement about documentation systems is accurate?

As the author of your paper, you usually have the right to decide which documentation system you use;

Most documentation systems are comprised of two parts: citations within the paper, and a list of sources at the end of the paper

Most documentation systems specify that background information on your topic does not have to be documented.

All documentation systems require citation of all sources.

Which statement about use of quotations from sources is true?

Quotations should always be full sentences.

Quotations should never be full sentences;

Quotations may be full sentences, or they may be parts of sentences, depending on your paper's needs.

One should never produce quotations longer than 10 lines.

What are the general guidelines for documenting online sources?

Online sources, including Web pages, are acceptable and should be documented;

Online sources are disapproved in APA style because they often lack scholarly credibility;

Online sources do not need to be identified by year of publication in the in-text citation.

Online sources are documented in the same way as other sources

In which system is the reference made: “Three hundred poets were part of the study (Foozle, 1977) that…”

MLA

Number

APA

Chicago

In IEEE documentation system:

Each appendix should have its own reference list

Each appendix need not have any reference list

There should not be any appendices.

Each appendix may have its own reference list.

IEEE style encloses citation numbers within the text of a paper

In square brackets [1]

As superscripts1

In bracketed form ( )

In a footnote

In IEEE

All references to one and the same source have different numbers

References are not numbered

All references to one and the same source have the same number

There may not be several references to one and the same source

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