I liked the questions on various surveys I examined. Rather than paraphrasing, I want to copy some of them directly, and use them in my survey, which is required for my dissertation.
What do you suggest to me, should I cite them or put in quotes, which I believe would be too awkward.
Perhaps, it's somewhat dependent on the field, but, AFAIK, in social sciences this situation is very typical. Nobody places questions in quotes, of course, however, a set of questions (questionnaire), which is usually referred to as an instrument, is cited. Such an approach is usually applied, when researchers use some reasonably well-known or validated instruments, or, at least, the ones from peer-reviewed studies. They are placed in appendices and are cited, based on guidelines of the publication style used in the paper in question.
I think that's a very good question to ask your advisor, in fact I think it's very important that you do so. If the advisor says it's ok, you can hardly be held up for plagiarism, and if not, then you don't want to do it anyway.
