Helpful or Hurtful Women who get their nails done on a regular basis know that once one nail gets ruined, it ruins the whole look. This same idea applies to academic writing; using an unreliable source to support an argument will only weaken it. Robert Harris’s EAR method, found in his book, Using Sources Effectively: Strengthening Your Writing and Avoiding Plagiarism, is a great way to evaluate a source’s expertise, accuracy, and reliability. “Are We Becoming More Socially Awkward? An Analysis of the Relationship Between Technological Communication Use and Social Skills in College Students” is an article by Cecilia Brown that describes her experiment performed on students and the results. She tested the relationship between technology use and social skills in college students. By using Richard Bullock’s book, The Norton Field Guide to Writing and Robert Harris’s book, Using Sources Effectively one can be confident that the article “Are We Becoming More Socially Awkward?” by Cecilia Brown is a trustworthy resource to use as support.
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When checking an author’s credibility, one should be sure that he or she is “well-informed about the area and aware of all the relevant issues” (Harris 36). Bullock agrees to this idea when he mentions that “to be useful, authorities must be reputable, trustworthy, and qualified to address the subject” (328). Brown’s article states that “a total of 112 male and female undergraduate students at Connecticut College were surveyed about their social skills, social anxiety, technology use, and technology preference” (ii). She clearly has a lot of knowledge about modern technology and how to effectively test subject’s reactions to it. By testing a large number of subjects, her results are more likely to be
When checking an author’s credibility, one should be sure that he or she is “well-informed about the area and aware of all the relevant issues” (Harris 36). Bullock agrees to this idea when he mentions that “to be useful, authorities must be reputable, trustworthy, and qualified to address the subject” (328). Brown’s article states that “a total of 112 male and female undergraduate students at Connecticut College were surveyed about their social skills, social anxiety, technology use, and technology preference” (ii). She clearly has a lot of knowledge about modern technology and how to effectively test subject’s reactions to it. By testing a large number of subjects, her results are more likely to be