Week 1
Week 2
APA
Policies
Grab Bag
100
_____________________ is the process of sending and receiving messages.
What is "Communication?"
100
Students should always analyze the validity, credibility, and ___________ of data.
What is "Reliability?"
100
This should be the spacing between lines of text in an academic paper, including the lines within and between reference page entries.
What is "double space?"
100
If a student attends a workshop, he or she will receive participation parts for that day's workshop. TRUE OR FALSE.
What is "FALSE?" Mere attendance does not suffice to earn participation points each week. Students must actually ACTIVELY participate during the workshop to earn participation points.
100
This percentage of your day consists of interpersonal communication.
What is "70%?"
200
____________________ is the key to effective communication.
What is "Shared understanding?"
200
The more ___________________ the claim, ?the stronger the argument you need to accept it.
What is "Unbelievable?"
200
The required information for a title page should appear in this portion of the page.
What is "in the upper one-half (1/2)?"
200
Students should never read, use, or quote so-called "study sites" or "archived papers" when completing their weekly assignments. TRUE OR FALSE
What is "TRUE?" Taking any of the listed actions is a violation of the Student Code of Conduct and the Student Code of Academic Integrity.
200
These are several of the benefits of effective listening in the workplace. Name two.
What is Bond of respect Productivity Cooler heads Confidence Accuracy?
300
Critical thinkers know not to rely upon popular belief. Instead, critical thinkers know to rely upon ______________________ that proves or disproves the popularly-held belief.
What is "Evidence?"
300
All font should be this size.
What is "12-point?"
300
Students suspected of plagiarizing (whether the plagiarism is intentional or unintentional) on an assignment will receive _________________________.
What is "a zero on the offending assignment, in addition to any other penalties the university may impose?"
300
This is one of the greatest skills that can improve communication, yet most people need to vastly improve in this area.
What is "Listening?"
400
The _____________________ is the medium through which the message travels from sender to receiver.
What is "Channel?"
400
When assessing a source's credibility, one should have a healthy skepticism about not only the source’s knowledge, but also the source's ________________________, objectivity, and reliability?
What is "Truthfulness?"
400
This style font is preferred, and some instructors may even require only its use but Courier and Arial are also acceptable under APA guidelines.
What is "Times New Roman?"
400
Students must never cite to this popular website, as the information contained on the site may or may not be accurate and is not subjected to the peer-review process.
What is "Wikipedia?"
400
When one tries to support or prove a claim, he or she gives a(n) ______________________________.
What is an "Argument?"
500
This type of noise occurs when the receiver doesn’t understand a word or gesture and may happen when communicating with people of different cultures or when technicians using jargon with laypeople.
What is "Semantic noise?"
500
Critical thinkers know that even a truthful source may be one or more of these things. Name one.
What is "Mistaken, Biased, or Lacking in Expertise?"
500
Students must always include both in-text and reference page citation entries for any information in a paper that is not within the general public's knowledge and is not ______________________.
What is "the student's own original concept or idea?"
500
During Weeks 1 - 4, assignments may be submitted up to _____ hours late and still be eligible to earn at least partial credit.
What is "48?" There is a 10% late penalty for each 24 hour period the assignment is late, up to 48 hours late, maximum. No late assignments are accepted in Week 5.
500
This is the Latin term for when Person A uses attacks on Person B's character or motives rather than Person A attacking Person B's actual belief or statement. According to your textbook's author, this is also one of the most common fallacies used.
What is "Argumentum ad hominem?"
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