Assignment 1
(COMPLETE
ANSWERS) Semester 1
2025
DUE 2 April 2025
, ACTIVIIES
Question 1: The HMEMS80 module has a specific email address that students need to use to
communicate with the lecturing team. Is this statement true or false? a) True b) False Question 2:
Which one of the following statements is a specific outcome for the module? a) Explain the purpose,
principles and characteristics of scientific research. b) Conduct a literature search, integrate and
present appropriate literature in a suitable academic and scientific style. c) Demonstrate knowledge
and understanding of the principles, concepts and methodology of scientific research. d) Differentiate
between and critically reason about quantitative, qualitative and mixed method research approaches.
Question 3: Which of the following actions does not constitute academic dishonesty? a) Copy-pasting
portions of the articles and presenting those as your own work. b) Using ChatGPT to write sections of
your literature review. c) Sharing your assignment with other students in your study group. d) Directly
quoting information from an article and appropriately citing the source. Question 4: Following the
APA (7 th edition) in-text referencing guidelines, which one of the following is the correct way of
referencing? a) According to Sadiki and Ungerer, (2023), … b) Sadiki and Ungerer (2023: 221) argued
that … c) Sadiki & Ungerer (2023) argued that … d) According to Sadiki and Ungerer (2023), …
Question 5: A research student wants to study the effect of student support on academic
performance among the HMEMS80 students. She collects data on the rate of use of student support
offered in the module (student support) and their performance in the assessments (academic
performance). What is the independent variable in this study? a) Academic performance. b) Student
support. c) HMEMS80 module. d) Not enough information to enable a differentiation. Question 6:
Which one of the following is not correct regarding plagiarism? a) The sources for graphs, charts and
figures must be acknowledged as they represent the ideas and work of another person. b) There is no
limit to the use of direct quotations, it is encouraged as direct quotations add weight to your
arguments. c) When paraphrasing, it is not enough to change one or two words in a sentence as that
does not show your understanding of the topic. d) Ideas, direct quotations, examples, paraphrasing
and summaries from someone else’s work must be referenced. Question 7: To avoid being penalized
for plagiarism in your literature review assignment, you should …. a) cite all the sources used in-text
using the APA (7th ed) referencing style. b) rather use the prescribed book to define the variables and
the problem statement. c) combine sections of information from various articles and present as your
own work. d) avoid using internet sources as they cannot be appropriately referenced. Question 8: In
a literature review, it is not required that you acknowledge your sources in cases where you have
combined sections of other people’s work, including those taken from the internet with your own
words and phrases. Is this statement true or false? a) True. b) False. Question 9: Which of the
following statement is not true about the literature review? a) Literature review integrates various