Finding, Evaluating, and Analyzing Sources

Jen SchaeferLord Fairfax Community College

Library Help Screenshot PDF

This link takes you to the library search page, which allows you to FIND BOOKS and FIND JOURNAL ARTICLES. Review the posted information in the Persuasive Folder under Weekly Units for information on

finding reliable internet sources. You may NOT use Wikipedia or anything else that any Joe Blow can post to or edit. Ask yourself who the author is and what makes that internet site CREDIBLE!!

Within the Library’s Help and FAQ section, there are video and text tutorials for finding sources. You should search the Opposing Viewpoints database for your topic, since that focuses on debatable

subjects and offers both the pro and con side for each.

Review the Bedford St. Martin’s “Tips for Evaluating Sources” site.

Harvard’s “

A Source’s Role in Your Paper

” website includes valuable tips for

assessing how a

source’s information will fit into your paper and what it will add to

your argument.

Refer to the posted

Annotated Bibliography

Example, which you will

use as a model for your

annotated bibliography for

the source you deem is

“worthy” to use for your

argument.

Remember, your source

MUST be a journal article.