Citation and Referencing : self-tests
When, where, and how to cite
and reference
(and a couple of self-tests)
Back to the notes page: Citation and Referencing: when where and how
1.
Should this be cited?
2. Situations.
Part 1: Should this be cited? Click on your answer.
(This is as from student essay; some statements needs to be
cited, some do not. But which?)
1. As we shall see, there is great disagreement as to which is the world’s deadliest disease.
2. In a book on germ warfare as a potential terrorist tactic, it was suggested that “...scientists are convinced that the next bioterror threat is not anthrax but a genetically modified strain of smallpox, the world's deadliest disease.”
3. Smallpox has been eradicated, so here “deadliest” is perhaps used in a historical sense; it was the disease from which, once caught, victims almost always died.
4. In 2001, an American television station reported, “Malaria, the world's deadliest disease, could be wiped out within 25 years if U.S. scientists succeed in a genetic-engineering project involving mosquitoes that carry the disease.”
5. Another television reporter said, also in 2001, that tuberculosis was the world's deadliest disease.
6. In a speech in Africa, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown stated that HIV/ AIDS is the world's deadliest disease.
7. Asked, “What is the deadliest disease in the world?” the Online Expert at the World Health Organization (WHO) notes that ischaemic heart disease is believed to be the biggest killer, worldwide, in 2002, responsible for an estimated 7.2 million deaths, followed by another heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, responsible for an estimated 5.5 million deaths.
8. Influenza, on the other hand, may be an even bigger killer. 15 million people around the world die from this disease every year.
9. Fifteen million deaths a year may even be small, compared with the forty million deaths caused by the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918.
10. So, what is the world’s deadliest disease? Much may depend on your definitions, of “deadliest” and of “disease”. It could be the disease which kills the most number of people per year. It could be the disease which, once contracted, is most certain to kill. It could be the disease which, over the centuries and the millenia, has killed most people. It could be the one-off epidemic which killed most people.
11. It could also be that the deadliest diseases changes from year to year, so that heart diseases ranked most highly in 2002, influenza in 2001, tuberculosis in year 2000, and so on.
Part 2: Situations : do I need to cite this? Click on your answer.
12. You download a .jpg picture to use in an article you are writing for the school newspaper.
13. You talk to an uncle about the time his experiences in Germany during World Cup 2006, and include several incidents in a report you are writing on sport.
14. You find some great copyright-free pictures in Wikimedia, and use them in a PowerPoint presentation.
15. You use the term “out of the frying pan and into the fire” in a story you are writing called “Bad Choices.”
16. You discover the term “powerpointlessness” on a web-page. It’s just what you need for the title of a paper you have written.
17. A week after reading an article in Scientific American, you mention several facts from it in an essay you are writing for homework.
18. You have been a fan of Real Madrid football club for many years. You prepare a class presentation on the club.
19. You take a number of screengrabs from world wide web pages, and use them in an essay on trends in web page design.
20. In a box in the cellar, you find have some postcards sent by members of your family during the First World War, nearly 100 years ago. You use the postcard messages in a story you are writing about soldiers in war.
21. After reading an article in the American magazine NewsWeek, you use some of the story as background information in an essay you are writing in Turkish.
22. You find the exact sentence “Marijuana is a green, brown, or gray mixture of dried, shredded leaves, stems, seeds, and flowers of the hemp plant” on 10 different web sites. Clearly this is common knowledge, and you use it in a biology project.
Return to Now read On Home Page |
|
 To Robert CollegeLibrary Home Page |
John Royce,
BA, MLib, MCLIP
Library Director, Robert College
Arnavutköy, TR-34345 Istanbul, Turkey.
The URL of this page is http://www.read2live.com/citehowtest.html
It was last revised on 22 December 2006.