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, Semester 1
Assignment 01
Multiple choice questions
Assignment type:
assignment
Unique assignment number: 777576
Due date: 17 February
This assignment contributes 10% to your year mark for this module.
This assignment is compulsory and must be submitted on or before the due date in order for
you to gain entrance to the examination.
This assignment is about referencing. Many students struggle with referencing in their written
assignments and often get a mark of less than 50% even though they would have passed if they
referenced correctly. Our aim with this assignment is to help you to acquire the skill of
referencing. You will then be in a better position to reference correctly in your written
assignments.
Instructions:
• You should complete this assignment on a mark-reading sheet, via myUnisa or via a cell
phone through Mobile MCQ submission. It may not be submitted via fax or e-mail. For
more information, see the my Studies @ Unisa brochure.
• This assignment will be marked electronically at the assignments section.
• No extension for submission will be granted.
• There are 20 multiple-choice questions in total.
• You must answer all the questions.
• Each question has only one correct answer. For those questions that ask you to identify
a number of statements (for example, (a)-(f)), make sure that the answer you give is from
the numerical options (for example, (1)-(5)).
• To answer the questions, refer to Tutorial Letter 102.
• Feedback will be given in a tutorial letter to be sent out after the closing date for the
assignment. This will also be uploaded on myUnisa under “Official Study Material”.
Questions
Use the information below from the study guide to answer Question 1.
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, GGH2605/101
1. Which one of the following ways is the correct way to reference the above study guide
according to the method outlined in Tutorial Letter 102?
(1) P.A. Pienaar. 2011. Environmental politics: Only study guide for GGH2605. Pretoria:
University of South Africa.
(2) Pienaar, PA, 2011. Environmental politics: Only study guide for GGH2605. Unisa.
(3) Pienaar, PA, 2012. Environmental politics: Only study guide for GGH2605. Pretoria:
University of South Africa.
(4) Study Guide for GGH2605.
(5) Pienaar, PA, 2011. Environmental politics: Only study guide for GGH2605. Pretoria:
University of South Africa.
2. Which one of the following statements regarding reference lists is false?
(1) A reference list is a list of all the sources from which you have taken ideas and
information to use in your argument.
(2) A reference list is complete only when it contains all the sources you used when you
wrote your assignment.
(3) A reference list must be in chronological order by year.
(4) A reference list must be in alphabetical order.
(5) A reference list is a list of all the sources that you have cited in your text/work.
3. Identify the examples which illustrate incorrect in-text citation/referencing according to the
method outlined in Tutorial Letter 102.
Note: For this question, you have to specifically identify technical and stylistic factors
(such as information included, punctuation and italics); you do not need knowledge of the
sources mentioned.
(a) “Although South Africa is considered a middle-income country in terms of its
economy, it has health outcomes that are worse than those in many lower income
countries” (Coovadia, Jewkes, Barron, Sanders and McIntyre 2009: 817).
(b) Many types of stakeholders can be identified, including project beneficiaries, local
communities and voluntary organisations. (Bisset 2000).
(c) The WCED (1990 cited in Doyle and McEachern 2008: 52) defines sustainable
development as ...
(d) Lee and George (2000) examine the processes and practices of environmental
assessment in developing and transitional countries.
(e) “WWF South Africa shares public concerns over the on-going complications around
the completion of work on the Medupi power station” ( http://www.wwf.org.za).
The examples which illustrate incorrect in-text citation/referencing are:
(1) (a), (b) and (c)
(2) (a), (b) and (e)
(3) (a), (d) and (e)
(4) (b), (c) and (d)
(5) (c), (d) and (e)
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