Sources & citations

Agenda

• Read chapters 4 & 5– Quiz due Sunday midnight

• Today– Research & Citations– Speaking order– Assignment due Sunday midnight

• Next Week– Outlines, Audience Analysis– Read chapters 6,7,8

Sources & CitationsHow & Where to Find Credible Sources

Where Do I Start?

• NIC Library database– Scholarly journals– Periodicals– Government archives– E-books and real books

• The Internet– Multiple search engines– Library recommendations– Try sweetsearch.com

How does Google work?

• Key Words– Spiders, crawlers, site maps

• PageRank– Frequency and location of keywords– How long the Web page has existed– Number of other Web pages that link to the

page

Dig Deep

• The best sites are not always on top• Check for credibility:

– Who hosts the site?– How current is it?– Does it appear to be biased?– Are there citations & references?– Don’t always trust the domain

• Eg. Martinlutherking.org

Search the Library

• NIC links to many other libraries• Provides access to thousands of books

and periodicals• Peer reviewed journals• Other university databases• Academic archives• Journalistic archives

Write Your Bibliography

• MLA tip sheet (workbook, Blackboard)• Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab)

– Electronic Citations• Easy Bib• Son of Citation Machine• MLA Handbook• Ask librarian or writing lab for assistance

Review

• Assignment:– Source & Citations Worksheet in Week 2

folder– Find two (2) sources for your speech topic

and answer the questions– Write MLA bibliography for your sources

• Please include the URL for sources if electronic