Finding Reliable Sources

When you are looking for a reliable source, what should it include?

• claim, reasons, and evidence

• author name, date, and cited sources

• plagiarized information

• primary and secondary sources

When analyzing a reliable source, what type of evidence will help you write your argument?

• facts and opinions

• primary and secondary sources

• data, statistics, anecdotes, and examples

• information that only smart people would find

A description of an event given by someone who was not there is considered a...

• primary source

• secondary source

• Wikipedia entry

• Google search

A firsthand account of an event given by someone who was actually at the event is considered a...

• primary source

• secondary source

• Wikipedia entry

• Google search

Diaries, journals, speeches, letters, legal documents, and experiments are considered to be...

• primary sources

• secondary sources

• Wikipedia entries

• Google search terms

Textbooks, biographies, newspaper articles, magazine articles, and biographies are considered to be...

• primary sources

• secondary sources

• Wikipedia entries

• Google search terms

Primary sources may include...

• information from multiple sources

• third person pronouns

• very specific details

• objective facts

Secondary sources may include...

• personal opinions

• very specific details

• first person point of view

• information from multiple sources

When analyzing a reliable sources you are looking for...

• anything to put in your paper

• quotes from important people

• information that agrees and disagrees with your initial claim

• a paraphrase or a summary

Once you have finished analyzing your primary sources, your next step should be to...

• begin to develop an outline of your argument

• write an introduction

• write your argument

• select quotes to put in your paper