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Evaluating evidence in your sources

Assessing the objectivity of the author, credibility of the source, and relevance to your offer

Assessing

Establishing credibility

Reasponsibly using logos pathos and ethos so as to establish yourself as well informed reasonable and fair

Responsibly

Finding sources

In some argumentative essays you can use your own ideas as evidence in support of your position. And many others however you have to do research to supplement your own ideas

Evaluating print sources

Accuracy


credibility


Objectivity


currency


comprehensiveness


Authority


to evaluate print sources use the same process that you use when you evaluate anything else

Evaluating internet sources

When you evaluate an internet source you need to begin by reviewing it skeptically unless you know for certain that it is reliable.


Summarizing sources

states the main idea of the passage or even an entire book or article in concise terms. Because a summary leaves out the examples explanations and stylistic devices of the source it is always much shorter than the original

Paraphrasing your sources

present the sources ideas in detail including its main idea it's key supporting points and perhaps even its example for this reason a paraphrase is longer than a summary

Quoting sources

Quoting accurately so that every word and every punctuation mark in your quotation matches the source exactly

Working quotations into your sentences

Edit them to provide context or to make them fit smoothly into your sentences without distorting them

Edit

Synthesizing sources

Combining the summary paraphrase and quotation from several sources with your own ideas to support and original conclusion

MLA paper guidlines

1 author


2 title of the article


3 title of the periodical


4 volume and issue numbers


5 date or year of publication


6 page number of the article


7 medium of publication

Avoiding unitentional Plagerism

Always include full parenthetical documentation and works cited list to make the source of your information clearer to readers

Revising to eliminate Plagerism

To follow the correct use of source material include both and identifying tag and a page number that directs the reader to the exact location of the material the student is summarizing