1. Library subscription databases: search through several years’ worth of articles from a large number of different print periodicals for information on your topic.
Academic Universe: ‘world’s largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full-text database’ for peer-reviewed articles from 4,000 periodical titles.
World Wide Web: Free and available to everyone.
2. Bibliography: alphabetically arranged list of evaluated sources into a computer file.
Annotated Bibliography: Helps you visualize sources, their basic content and reactions to them as a unit of information gathered in one place.
3. Is the source associated with an organization, is source listed under reputable domain, is source directed mainly to extremists? etc.
4. To make your research as efficient as possible.
5. Plagiarism is the copying of someone’s work without giving them credit. Compare your passage to the author’s and change if necessary to avoid plagiarism.
