Chapter 15: Locating, Evaluating, and Drawing on Sources

There are many strategies used to locate sources. Some of these include: campus library, catalogs, internet, newspapers, magazines, and many more. When the correct source needed is located, the next important step to take is evaluating it. It is important to ask questions like: is the author reliable? What is the author's point of view? If it is from the internet, who is sponsoring the site? Is it a credible website? Is the information recent enough? Asking these questions is an easy way to see if the correct type of information has been found.

 The next step is to paraphrase the information found into text. It is important to not plagiarize. If the text is used word for word it is necessary to put quotations around it and then give the original author credit. These are called quotes. After quoting an author an in-text citation is necessary. This shows that the writer is giving full credit to the author. There are many different way to cite in-text quotes depending on whether the information has come form a book, website, or magazine. After the paper is written, it is imperative that there is a Works Cited page is created to go after the paper. This is a list of sources used in the paper alphabetized by author. It includes all the bibliographic information on each source used throughout the paper.

It is very easy to start writing and to just begin typing exactly what is being read. This is actually illegal. It is easy to avoid doing this by paraphrasing and citing sources.












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