1. Finding Support Material

2. Firsthand accounts or direct evidence of events, objects or people
Primary Sources
Firsthand accounts or direct evidence of events, objects or people
Includes:
Eyewitness accounts
Photos
Autobiographies
Interviews and observations

3. Analysis or commentary about thing not directly observed or created.
Secondary Sources
Analysis or commentary about thing not directly observed or created.
Includes:
Articles about events
Analysis of literature and film
News articles about a past event

4. You should still make sure the author is credible.
Books
You should still make sure the author is credible.
Good places to find books:
*Your public library (or college library)
*Google Books:

5. Other sources Periodicals: published magazines or journals
TSCT Library Online Database: life/learning-resources-center/online-resources/
Government publications:
USA.gov
Digital collections:
archive.org
Library of Congress: Digital collection—

6. Reference Works
Encyclopedias: good for overviews, but not considered a scholarly source. It is a jumping off point.
Almanacs: Good to get up-to-date facts about the world
Biographical Resources: Like encyclopedias but focused
Book of quotations or poetry collections: Can be good to find good lines for intros or conclusions
Atlases: Collection of maps, texts, and accompanying charts and tables

7. Trustworthiness Information: interpretation of data in accurate ways
Propaganda: information represented in such a way to provoke a response
Misinformation: something that is not true, like urban legends
Disinformation: deliberate falsification of information

8. Evaluating websites
Credibility
Accuracy
Reasonableness
Support

9. Citing Information In-text Citation: credits the source material
Should include: the author or origin of source, page number, the type of source, the title, and the date. *They are in order of importance. The minimum for MLA formatting is author’s last name and page number.
Examples:
According to Edward Said in this book, Orientalism, “The inter change between the academic and the more or less imaginative meaning of Orientalism is a constant one, and since the late eighteenth century there has been a considerable, quite disciplined-perhaps even regulated-traffic between the two” (11).
“The inter change between the academic and the more or less imaginative meaning of Orientalism is a constant one, and since the late eighteenth century there has been a considerable, quite disciplined-perhaps even regulated-traffic between the two” (Said 11).

10. Establish Source’s Trustworthiness
Source reliability: our level of trust toward credentials and track record
Source Qualifier: a brief description of the source’s qualifications to address the topic

11. More with in-text citations
Vary the wording:
According to...
Dr. Brown states
In Zadie Smith’s Swingtime, published in 2016, Smith, a well-known writer...
Lead with the claim:
Point—citation—analysis
Example:
Popular film often captures stereotypes of Middle Eastern people as violent or exotic. This is something Edward Said, one of the leading scholars of post-colonial studies, would call Othering, as noted in his 1978 work, Orientalism. These movies represent a continuation of perception that Western civilization sets the stage for what the norm is.

12. easybib.com and EbscoHost citation maker