History 4985

Documentation/Research Quiz
   
This quiz is intended to help you become familiar with library resources and with citing sources according to The Chicago Manual of Style.

Consult Part II of Turabian, A Manual of Style, or Section 7 of Rampolla, A Pocket Guide to Writing in History

  1. Provide a footnote reference for David Von Drehle's Triangle, the Fire That Changed America.  Also Find a web site related to the topic and cite as a footnote.

  2. Provide the proper bibliographic citation for Kathryn MacKay's dissertation.

  3. You have found a letter from Senator William H. King in the Delbert H. Adams manuscript collection in Weber State Library's Special Collections. Cite it as an endnote.
     

  4. Find a U.S. government document that relates to either Hill Air Force Base, the internment of the Japanese in WWII, the building of highway I15, or the building of the Jordenelle Dam. Cite in bibliographic format.

  5. Choose one and cite as an endnote:

    • How would you cite a phone call you received from President Obama on 10 May 2008?
    • How would you cite an oral history that you did of your grandmother?
       
  6. Find an article about Jim Thorpe or Babe Didrikson Zaharias in an electronic scholarly journal and cite it as a footnote.
     
  7. Find a print copy of a popular journal -- Time, Newsweek, Harpers', The Atlantic Monthly, etc. -- find an article with a by-line and cite it in a bibliographic format.
     
  8. Find through an electronic database an article  in a scholarly journal about any one of the U.S. presidents. Cite it as a footnote. Find the papers for that president in digital form. Cite a presidential order in those papers as a footnote. 
     

  9. Choose one:

    • Pick up a copy of The New York Times. Find a letter to the editor and cite it in a bibliographic format.
    • Find in an electronic database an article from a Utah nespaper about the opening of the Ute Reservation in 1905. Cite in a bibliographic format.
  10. List 3 websites where you can find relaible pre-1900 U.S. newspapers?

  11. You are including a map, a photograph, or an illustration in your senior paper. You did not create it. How do you give proper credit to the person who did?

  12. What is Worldcat? Cite a title found there (in bibliographic format)  -- but not available in Stewart Library. Where is it avaialble?

  13. What is I.L.L.? How does it work and for what would you use it?

  14. What type of call number is: 979.224F233o 2008? Using this number -- what is the text? Which areas of the Stewart Library use thie Dewey system?

  15. What is the Library of Congess? Why might you consult the LOC subject headings?