Chapter 2

Assessing informa-
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Self-evaluation
All four sources of information may
be useful. Course reading lists and
handouts are often a good place to
start. Your university library and
academic databases can provide good
quality, ‘peer reviewed’ source texts.
Google™ is easy to access, but it is
advisable to use Google Scholar™ for
academic material.
Exercise 1

1.C
2.A
3.B
4.D
Exercise 2
Type of Search terms
pub-
lication
1 Book Small, G., & Vorgan, G.; iBrain:
surviving the technological
alteration of the
modern mind
2 Journal article Semanza, J. C.; American Journal
of Public Health
3 Journal article Inceoglu, I., Segers, J., & Bartram,
D.; Journal of Occupational &
Organizational Psychology
4 Book Chan, K. W., Kwong, C. K., &
Dillon, T. S.; Computa-
Exercise 3
Suggested answers:
1. Assess the European Central Bank’s
response to the Eurozone financial
crisis.
2. Compare and contrast social media
use among young people in the United
States and in China.
3. Give an account of the role of ri-
bonucleic acid in protein synthesis.
4. Trace the history of the comic book.
Exercise 5
Suggested answers:
1. banking crisis/credit
crunch
2. online social networking/
e-network
3. youth/young adults
4. graphic novel
Exercise 6
1. Up to 30 items in total from the main collection
(10 items maximum from short loan).
2. 4 weeks for most items (between 4 hours and 1
week for short loan items).
3. Yes, you can reserve and renew items online –
however, if you owe money for an item that is
overdue, you must pay the fine and renew the
item in person.
4. Yes, 5 pence per day for most items, 50 pence
per hour for short loan items.
5. Log onto your library account and use the ‘Arti-
cle Reach’ facility.
Exercise 7
1. “media coverage”, “2008
banking crisis”
2. “life partner”, “Abraham
Maslow”, “hierarchy of needs”
3. “electricity generation”,
“wind power”, “environmental
impact”
4. “online social networking”
Exercise 8
Suggested answers:
1. environment* – environments,
environmentalist, environmentally
2. network* – networks, net-
worked
3. friend* – friend, friends,
friendly, friendliness
Exercise 9
Suggested answers:
1. Is generosity an innate human
trait?
2. altruism (= unselfish concern
for other people’s happiness and
welfare)
3. “innate human trait”
4. generosity or altruism and
“innate human trait”
Exercise 10
Google ™ will generate some
scholarly items but it will also
show items from commercial
sites, newspapers, online en-
cyclopedias and so on.
Google Scholar™ will gener-
ate scholarly items.