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Student Resources: Finding Good Sources
Tips, guidelines and strategies for success with Academic Writing.
This exercise provides examples on how to critique a source for credibility based on publication information. This handout also provides two source outlines to demonstrate how credibility can be determined with the given criteria.
This handout provides information on the aspects to search for when reading like a writer, such as: Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, and Conventions.
This handout provides the areas of concern a writer should have prior to writing after they have completed their research, these include: Audience, Topic, Purpose, and Voice.
This handout explains why it is necessary to cite sources while writing, such as: making research credible, to make a writer's voice appear knowledgeable, to give credit to original authors, and to act as a reference.
Annotating sources is part of active reading. When you read actively, you take notes and think critically about what you are reading. The notes you take in the margins are called annotations.
A literature review is not the same as a book review. Book reviews give the author’s opinion on a piece of literature while literature reviews seek to give an overview of published works on a specific subject.
