1. Ms. Mitchell Freshman Composition Andover High School

2.   A source is an outside piece of information that helps you learn and helps you support your claims in a research paper.  We use sources to back our ideas up with expertise. What is a Source?

3.   Just because something has been published (book or on-line) does not mean it is automatically good.  Anyone can write anything on the Internet.  Would you trust the person sitting next to you to teach you how to perform brain surgery? What if they had a nice looking website?  Link #1 Link #1  Link #2 Link #2 Good Vs. Bad

4.  Good vs. Bad Good  Books  Scholarly Journals and Websites  Newspapers  Well Respected Magazines ( Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, etc.)  Legitimate scientific websites (NASA, American Heart Association, etc.) Bad  Blogs  Personal Websites  Wikis (Wikipedia, etc.)  Movies  Historical Novels

5.   How do you find sources? How do you find sources?  How do you tell if a source is good or not? How do you tell if a source is good or not?  How do you tell if a source is appropriate? How do you tell if a source is appropriate? Determination

6.   Library—physical books, encyclopedias, magazines, etc.  Andover High  Memorial Hall  Network  On-Line—web based search  Google  If you’re smart about it! Google  Google Scholar Google Scholar  E-brary E-brary  Boston Public Library Online Boston Public Library Online Finding Sources

7.   Documentation  Citations  Contact Information for Author  Facts and Statistics  Known Organization  Author  Known Author  Respected Job/Employer  Persuasion  Is the product trying to get you to buy something? Vote for someone? Do something differently than you’re doing now?  If so, it’s worth questioning! Evaluation Sources: Quality

8.   Research Topic: What are the side effects of second hand smoke?  Source #1 Source #1  Source #2 Source #2  Source #3 Source #3  Source #4 Source #4  Source #5 Source #5  Which sites were quality, scholarly sources? Example

9.   Type of Source  Easy? Hard? It matters!  A scholarly article meant for medical students is going to be much harder to read than a fact sheet from the American Cancer Society!  Timeliness  See when the source was written  If you are researching the US Census, you may want to cite the Declaration of Independence, as well as more recent sources regarding the census.  If you are researching contemporary Presidential elections, should you use a newspaper article from 1919 talking about the Women’s Suffrage Movement? Suitability

10.   Relationship to Topic  If you are researching “How to Prevent Shark Attacks off Cape Cod” would an article from National Geographic on the rarity of shark attacks worldwide work for you?  Maybe? It would at least be worth reading to learn more!  What about an article from The New England Aquarium about what role the Cape Cod summer sharks play in the ecosystem?  Probably not. Still, worth checking out. However, it might be too far from your research question. Suitability