Exam 6: Researching Your Subject

You are writing a report analyzing whether your company should hire a new vendor to provide data-warehousing services. You have found a white paper online that looks promising. How can you judge the degree to which the authors are unbiased?

You are writing a report about technical methods used for desalination of seawater. Which of these resources is least likely to provide the technical information you need?

What is the function of an RSS feed?

Government publications are not usually listed in indexes or by abstract services.

conducting an experiment involves four stages. One is reporting the data. What are the other three?

What is the difference between secondary research and primary research?

in which phase of the writing process is it best to conduct research?

"How will China's rapid industrial development affect the global energy market over the next decade?" is more likely to be a workplace research question than an academic research question.

Chapter 6 suggests that you do three things when concluding an interview. What is one of them?

What kind of information is found in a periodical index?

With which research method does the researcher have the least amount of control?

A periodical index contains lists of journal and magazine articles classified according to title, subject, and author.

What is the term for demographic information about individuals who use and follow social media?

What is the function of the hashtag symbol (#) that is used on a number of social-media platforms?

You are interviewing the mayor of your city for a report on the prospects for high-tech manufacturing there. Which of the following questions will be most effective in an interview?

one disadvantage of a questionnaire is that you cannot be sure the respondents are representative of the population you want to study.

A writer is developing a questionnaire asking users about their experiences with a company's website. Which of the following questions is NOT flawed?

Which statement best compares the information found on a wiki with the information from an edited website?

When obtaining information on products and services from websites, discussion boards, and blogs, it is important not to assume that vendors' claims are accurate.

The tags that people use to categorize information they find on websites must be one-word descriptors without spaces or punctuation (such as "dallaszoo").