source critique

Assessing Source Credibility for Crafting A Well-Informed Argument

reading to write, secondary source research, Volume 3 /

Kate Warrington, Natasha Kovalyova, and Cindy King Volume 3 Chapter Description This article walks students through how to use critical reading strategies to help them select credible sources for their research papers and helps them understand how critical reading assignments they may have completed earlier in the semester have prepared them for the difficult task […]

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Everything Changes, or Why MLA Isn’t (Always) Right

quotations, citations, and style, Volume 2 /

Janice R. Walker Volume 2 Chapter Description Citing sources for an academic writing project can seem a bit like trying to hit a moving target—the rules keep changing (they’re more like guidelines anyway). Teaching citation can be especially difficult, then, given multiple styles necessary for multiple disciplines and the occasional style changes; however, what doesn’t

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Googlepedia: Turning Information Behaviors into Research Skills

secondary source research, Volume 2, writing technologies /

Randall McClure Volume 2 Chapter Description How do you, as a teacher, help students in the process of moving into the virtual library for their research needs, while respecting and understanding the information behaviors they practice and prefer? Growing up in the digital age, students often come to our first year writing courses with a

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Walk, Talk, Cook, Eat: A Guide to Using Sources

secondary source research, Volume 2, writing technologies /

Cynthia R. Haller Volume 2 Chapter Description Teaching students to write well with sources involves much more than teaching them to summarize, paraphrase, quote, and provide documentation. You can use this dialogue, in which a college student seeks writing advice about using sources from an online professor, to help students understand what it means to

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