3. To write a summary, you are not supposed to use your own words to express the
main idea and relevant details of the piece you have read.
TRUE FALSE
4. In précis writing, you must be carefully objective and maintain the theme of the
passage by excluding the important points.
TRUE FALSE
5. Primary sources were created by someone who participated in or observed the
TRUE FALSE
event being recorded.
6. Secondary sources were created by someone who was not present when the event
TRUE FALSE
took place.
7. The glossary gives you the name of the author.
TRUE FALSE
8. Each topic in the book, names of people, maps in the book, or any other
TRUE FALSE
information in the book are listed in the table of contents.
9. Content are the things that are contained in something
TRUE FALSE
10. Vocabulary words or new words in the book are found in the glossary.
TRUE FALSE
11. Examples of printed resources include, but are not limited to: textbooks,
TRUE FALSE
workbooks, reference books, magazines, newspaper, journals.
12. Magazines are publications that are not printed but are just published online. TRUE FALSE
TRUE FALSE
13. A newspaper is always printed on very expensive high quality paper.
14. Reference sources do not include bibliographies, manuals, handbooks, atlases, and
TRUE FALSE
gazetteers.
15. Other valuable sources of information besides printed materials include films,
TRUE FALSE
slides, and filmstrips and video clips, record albums, compact discs, and cassette
tapes, photographs and copies of works of art.​