Good morning! Today we will be learning about how to find good sources for our papers!
When looking for sources, we should be ensuring that they are credible, relevant to our research, are accurate, and do not hold any biases.
A tip for locating reliableresources is to check the ending of your website's URL. Websites ending in .gov or .org are typically trusted resources. Also check to ensure that the author of the article is a professional within the field you're writing about, so that we know the source is credible and unbiased.
When looking for relevancy, it is best to choose an article that is recent. The more recent the article was written, the more likely that it will be relevant to the topic you are writing about. The accuracy also improves in this case if there was more research completed and written about.
So remember, check for the author of the article to ensure that they are trusted to speak about the topic you are researching, check for recency of the article, look out for data and statistics within your research article, and ensure that it was written using factual evidence, not opinion.
We've got this! Looking for credible resources is less scary than we thought!