RELIABLE SOURCES Please follow along in your notes!

SOURCE A place that you find information– can be an article, movie, book, video, interview, lecture, study, etc. KEEP TRACK OF YOUR SOURCES AS YOU RESEARCH

RELIABLE OR CREDIBLE SOURCE A reliable, accurate, trustworthy source of information - Look for a clear author who is an authority on the topic and is writing to inform

UNRELIABLE SOURCE A source that you cannot trust to give you true or fair information- May not have an author, may be crowdsourced, may be focused on defending their opinion, be inaccurate, etc.

CROWDSOURCE To get information by getting many people to contribute their knowledge and opinions, usually through the internet; crowdsourced sources are not generally reliable

WIKI A website that many people (often everyone online) can add to or change; not generally reliable sources; Wikipedia is one example

Thinking Questions! ◦ You can’t use a crowdsourced webpage like Wikis, debate.org, about.com, and Yahoo Answers for a source. Still, how can you use them to make your research easier?

BIASED Prejudiced in support of or against a position A biased site may not give a fair representation of the facts on a topic. Example : A cigarette company telling you about how cigarettes affect your heart and overall health.

UNBIASED Giving a fair representation of the facts; Usually not supporting a position in favor or against something An unbiased site is a helpful source. Example: The American Heart Association presenting facts about how smoking affects your heart and overall health.

Thinking Questions! ◦ Why is it important to find unbiased sources, even if the source you found agrees with you?

URL The full web address of a website. You need to click on the “search”/”URL” bar on an iPad to see the whole thing.

.EDU A suffix to a website that tells you that site belongs to an educational institution, like a college or high school- Usually reliable, but be sure that you’re looking at an institutional page or professor’s page.

.ORG A suffix to a website that tells you that site belongs to an organization, like the American Heart Association- Bigger groups are often reliable, but be watchful for bias, since organizations usually have a cause.

.COM OR.BIZ A suffix to a website that tells you that site is commercial- it belongs to a company, like a Wrigley gum or Nikes shoes, and you should be aware of possible bias.

.NET A suffix to a website that tells you that site is part of a network of some kind, which really tells you very little- be watchful for bias

.GOV A suffix to a website that tells you that site belongs to a government institution, like the Department of Education or the Center for Disease Control- usually reliable

Thinking Questions! ◦ Which of the URL suffixes that we talked about would be most likely to contain reliable sources? Which would be least likely to contain reliable sources? Explain.

CITATION A Way to Give Credit to Your Sources and Tell Your Readers Where You Got Your Information

IN-TEXT CITATION A way to give credit to a source for a particular quote or piece of information; tells the reader which bibliographic citation to look at to find the source. Keep track of what information comes from what source. Example in bold : Contrary to what you may have heard, gum that you swallow usually only stays in your system for less than a week (Matson).

Thinking Questions! ◦ What do you need to keep track of to do your in-text citations?

BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION A way to tell your reader how to find the source you used in your work; Goes in your Bibliography; The format is different depending on the type of source ; save the URL or the article and webpage title so you can find it later. Example for an Online Article: Matson, John. “Fact or Fiction?: Chewing Gum Takes Seven Years to Digest.” Scientific American. Nature America, Inc., 11 October Web. 8 February 2016.

Thinking Questions! ◦ What do you need to keep track of for your bibliography?