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Choosing Sources Select the best sources by Currency Select the checking best sources by Range Select the checking best sources by Depth Select the checking best sources by Objectivity Select the checking best sources by

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Choosing Sources

Currency Range Depth Objectivity Completeness Reliability

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Select the best sources by checking

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Choosing Sources Currency Range Depth Objectivity Completeness Reliability

Find the most recent research.

If a website doesn’t have a date, don’t use it. Use an author-date system: MLA: (Melville 26) APA: (Einstein, 1965)

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Report others’ information correctly.

IMPORTANT: Direct quotes in technical writing are extremely rare.

Paraphrase: Experts agree that pill bugs taste awful (Jones, 2012). Direct quote: MLA: In Frogs Are Our Friends, Angela Mosquito says, “You should not let their warts discourage you” (Mosca, 2014).

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Use a good range— variety—of sources.

Published Empirical Already gathered and available First hand, original Periodicals, websites, government publications, social media, reference materials, and so on Experiments, surveys, interviews, field

  • bservations, case

studies, and so on

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Choosing Sources Currency Range Depth Objectivity Completeness Reliability

Published sources: Aim for the greatest depth.

Goals Objectivity Technicality Example Market driven (sales) Less

  • bjective

Less technical Sunset

Shallowest: popular press

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Choosing Sources Currency Range Depth Objectivity Completeness Reliability

Published sources: Aim for the greatest depth.

Goals Objectivity Technicality Example Some- what market driven Less

  • bjective

Somewhat technical American Nursery- man

Medium Depth: trade magazines

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Choosing Sources Currency Range Depth Objectivity Completeness Reliability

Published sources: Aim for the greatest depth.

Goals Objectivity Technicality Example Field driven (know- ledge) Most

  • bjective

Most technical Taxon

Deepest: scholarly, peer reviewed journals

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Assess the objectivity

  • f each source.

Spydersden.wordpress.com, 2014

Can you use this information?

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Make sure you have enough sources.

  • Check the ends of scholarly articles
  • Google search
  • Use the Cal Poly databases
  • Use the Cal Poly librarians
  • Check synonyms

Myearoffaith.com, 2014

What do you call this?

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Make sure the sources are reliable.

  • What is the author’s name?
  • What are his/her/their

credentials?

  • What if the author's name or

credentials are not listed on a corporate website?

Mary_Forte's_Linear_Analysis_Assistance.com

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Make sure the sources are reliable.

What about Wikipedia?