Thursday, November 14, 2013

You should have several types of evidence at this point and are almost ready to begin your essay.  First, double-check your sources and make sure that they are credible; remember, in order to write a credible essay, you need to have credible evidence.  How to do that?  Well, first, stay away from blogs; if your source has an avatar, run away immediately. What connections do the authors have to the topic, such as, do they have a degree that is related to the topic and is that degree from a well-known university?  Have they been working in that topic for a while?  Look at domain names: .edu and .gov domains are more credible than .com or .net domains. Are you finding the same information on different websites? Then the information is probably good; however, if each source is just quoting each other, there may be a problem: if one of those sources is wrong, then they're all wrong.

When you start writing your essay, you'll need to cite your sources in your text (this is different from the Works Cited page--remember, easybib.com will help you with that).  There are too many different ways to do in-cite quotations, so here is a link to a website that can help.

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