UCU 110 • UNIT 5 • Humanities

Reading Skills and Information Literacy

Topics covered: Nature, Purpose, and Levels of Academic Reading, Reading Techniques: Skimming, Scanning, and In-depth Reading, Critical and Analytical Reading Strategies, Note-Making Formats from Written Texts, Transcoding Graphs, Tables, and Charts into Text, Synthesizing Multiple Academic Sources

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Question 3 (10 marks)

: Library Skills

  1. Kisima is a first year student at Kenyatta University. He has submitted his fIrst draft

of the essay and the facilitator has told him that part of his work is plagiarised. List

.two possible ethical issues the facilitator came across in the draft .. (4 marks)

  1. Underline and name the various parts of the reference below:
    Cough, T. (2000). Improving your relationship through communication (3rd Ed.).

Better Yourselves Books. (2 marks)

  1. Explain two reasons for evaluating sources of information when doing research on

our assignments. (4 marks)

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Question 3 (10 marks)

: Information Literacy and Ethics**

i. Briefly explain two ways using another person's information in an ethical way when writing essays. (4 marks)

ii. Explain the benefit of using the Boolean operator "NOT" in your information search. (2 marks)

iii. Write the reference below using the American Psychological Association (APA) 6\textsuperscript{th} or 7\textsuperscript{th} style. (4 marks)

College Writing Skills Media Edition, 5\textsuperscript{th} edition, John Langan, New York, McGraw Hill

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