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How can you tell if a source is credible?

Task: Create a list of questions you could use to evaluate sources.

Let’s apply your questions to the Facebook articles.

Peer review in 3 min.http://youtu.be/rOCQZ7QnoN0

How to reada scholarly article

You’ll use a variety of sources in your writing, each source there for a particular reason.

an overview of X

people’s opinions of X

the latest research on X

an image of X

the most important study on X ever done

an example of X that you can discuss

a particular theory that can be applied to X

how X works in other cultures

how X became an issue

“You must include in-text citations and a short list of references in APA style at the end of your work.”

Citing sources

Citing sources

Marche (2012) describes Zuckerberg’s depiction as a socially-challenged CEO as being “true to Facebook” and declares the film’s “most indelible” final scene a moment of superconnected loneliness preserved in amber” (para. 5).

A paragraph from Marche’s article:

How an IAT 103W student cited Marche in APA style:

Marche, S. (2012, May). Is Facebook making us lonely? Retrieved from http://www.theatlantic.com

In-text citation:

References:

Citing sources

Citing sourcesA photograph that you took yourself:

Figure 1. Shoes worn for high school graduation on June 23, 2001.

References: No entry needed In-text discussion: Refer to figures by their number (“…as shown in Figure 1”)

Caption: Provide a brief description of the image. The caption should serve as both a title and explanation.

Citing sources

Image credits

Gears by Mark Shorter

Fishing Hook by Laurent Canivet

Russian Doll by Dmitriy Lagunov

Thinking by Timothy Dilich

Stethoscope by Olivier Guin

Okay by Kobieta

Glasses by Cor Tiemens

Delete User by Murali Krishna

Tools by Juan Pablo Bravo

Network by Mister Pixel

Signpost by Juan Pablo Bravo

All icons used were published with CC-BY licenses or are in the public domain. They all come from The Noun Project: thenounproject.com

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