1. Chapter 6

2.  Locate and evaluate sources
 Identify and select relevant information
 Citing sources

3. Primary Secondary
You collect Others
the data have
yourself researched

4.  Secondary research
 Encyclopedias
◦ Good starting point
◦ Not thorough enough for college-level research
◦ Wikipedia?

5. Authority
Objectivity
Currency
Relevance

6.  Fact, statistic, story, quote, etc, must also
provide the source.
 Source, author, date
 No page number, volume, etc
 Examples page 114
 “Oral footnotes”