Goals: You will be able to...
- Evaluate credibility of sources
- Look for sources effectively
Warm-up: You need to find one or two articles to use in your 2nd essay. How would you look for sources? Where do you go first to find sources?
Rank order the following search tools in terms of their reliability (rank 1 to 6).
1) Multi-purpose search engine 1 (www.google.com, www.about.com)
2) Google scholar (http://scholar.google.com)
3) School library database (http://www.library.illinois.edu)
4) Blog (http://www.micapie.com/)
5) E-encyclopedia (www.wikipedia.com)
6) E-journal (http://www.jstor.org/)
Discussion: What criteria did you use to rank order them?
Task 1: Imagine that they need to write a cause/effect paper about "the causes of worldwide popularity of Twilight” and you did some search to find the following five sources. Which one of them would you use in your paper? Evaluate them according to the criteria and rank order them.
- http://peacelovetwilightblog.blogspot.com/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_%28series%29
- http://www.tasa.org.au/conferences/conferencepapers09/papers/Strong,%20Catherine.pdf (generated by google.scholar search)
- http://prospect.org/article/girls-just-wanna-have-fangs-0 (e-magazine)
- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/38821593/spring%202012/bitten.pdf (generated by EBSCO)
Task 2: Tips for effective search
- Try out many different search words and keep track of all search key words you try and write down how successful the search was so you don't repeat the same search again
- Use quotation marks ("") helps when you really want an exact match
Homework: Finish your outline homework assigned on Day 24 and upload it in your Dropbox as "Essay2_outline" before you come to class on Friday, Oct 26.
