Article Assignment

Question 1

A graduate student’s thesis on “The effects of herbivores on the seed bank in a grassland and shrubland”.

a. primary literature
b. secondary literature
c. grey literature

Answer 1

c. grey literature

Question 2

_____consists of papers, reports, technical notes or other documents that are produced by government agencies, academic institutions, and other institutions.

Answer 2

Grey Literature

Question 3

_____summarizes scientific research on a specific topic. It may be very scholarly in style and published in a journal or book, or written for non-specialists and published in magazines or books.

Answer 3

Secondary Literature

Question 4

_____can be difficult to locate because it may not be available online and many academic databases do not cover this type of material.

Answer 4

Grey Literature

Question 5

_____is a formal evaluation process by experts prior to publication.

Answer 5

Peer Review

Question 6

_____ doesn’t report on a single research project but reviews information from many sources to provide a comprehensive discussion of the research conducted on a subject. A journal article of this type is called a Review Article because it reviews the research on a specific topic.

Answer 6

Secondary Literature

Question 7

______in the sciences is in the form of articles published in scholarly journals and describes the research projects undertaken by the authors.

Answer 7

Primary Literature

Question 8

We sometimes refer to this classic structure that indicates a primary research article as “IMRD”
T/F

Answer 8

True

Question 9

Citation databases provide the best method for finding _________. These databases index all of the literature published in broad subject areas, and provide the user subject and keyword searching to identify needed articles.

Answer 9

Primary Literature

Question 10

Primary source articles have a particular structure.

T/F

Answer 10

True

Question 11

A brief summary of the article is what?

Answer 11

Abstract

Question 12

If you are searching for information, when should you look for academic journals?

a. when you need to find the authors’ credentials.
b. when you need to find large datasets, like the human genome.
c. when you need to find the properties of a chemical.
d. when you need to find the latest, cutting-edge, verified information about a specific topic.

Answer 12

d. when you need to find the latest, cutting-edge, verified information about a specific topic.

Question 13

What is an example of “grey literature?”

a. Dissertations/theses
b. patent
c. article in popular magazine, like National Geographic
d. Newspaper article

Answer 13

a. Dissertations/theses

Question 14

Summarizes, compares, critiques, or interprets the primary literature.

Answer 14

Secondary source literature

Question 15

• documents the results of original research
• is written by those who have conducted the research
• includes firsthand information about their methodologies, data, results, or conclusions.

Answer 15

Primary source literature

Question 16

Research articles published in scholarly, peer-reviewed journals.

Answer 16

Primary sources

Question 17

TYPES OF WORK: Clinical trials, interviews, correspondence, patents, lab notebooks, data sets, theses & dissertations, technical reports.

Answer 17

Primary sources

Question 18

TYPES OF WORK: review articles, textbooks, dictionaries, directories, encyclopedias, work that relies on primary sources.

Answer 18

Secondary sources

Question 19

TYPES OF WORK: conference proceedings, data exchange, dissertations/theses, government docs, online docs, working papers.

Answer 19

Grey Literature