Part 1: Find 5 to 7 Credible Sources Directions: Remember you must have 5 to 7 sources in your speech. Your sources must achieve the following goals: Part 2: Analyze Your Sources for Credibility Directions: For EACH of your sources answer questions A – F and post your responses (Links to an external site.) in the text box below or upload it as a word document. Authority – Who is the author? What is their point of view? Purpose – Why was the source created? Who is the intended audience? Publication & Format – Where was it published? In what medium? Relevance – How is it relevant to your research? What is its scope? Date of publication – When was it written? Has it been updated? Documentation – Did they cite their sources? Who did they cite? Examples of sources Source Purpose Example ex. Report about homelessness in U.S. with stats to prove the extent of problem. Statistics & Research Proves the problem is real and current. ex. A news report with the story of person who lost their job during the pandemic and is Proves the problem effects the every day life now homeless. of people or the planet. Story or Narratives Causes & Effects Explains what is causing the problem and who/what it is effecting. ex. A report from a non-profit group that shows California is not building enough affordable housing for working class people. As a result people are spending a majority of their income on housing cost. ex. A report from a city in California that is making progress on affordable housing Comparisons Compares problem to other places. ex. A study that shows that affordable housing is the best solution to ending homelessness in California. Solution Proves that your solution will work. A brief table about source credibility. Remember that it is up to you to make sure that your sources are credible. . Consider the quality of the sources: academic Studies, Research. • Remember that.edu, .org. .gov are stronger sources than.com Look at the bias of your sources as your are searching. Look at the media bias chart c and only use sources above the green line. The Media Bias Chart Version 7.0 January 2021 Skews Left Middle Interactive version with more sources at adfontesmedia.com Skews Right Hyper-Partisan Right Most Extreme Right ad fontes media Most Extreme Left Hyper-Partisan Left Original Fact Reporting Fact Reporting MORE Where to Ched FORTAL.Omberg Mostly Analysis OR Mix of Fact Reporting and Analysis Analysis OR High Variation in Reliability ExamNEWS WEB) NATIONAL REVIEW News Value and Reliability APREUTERS UPI VA STARSVSTRIPES news PRIHUBLICA DO MIS OCBSFT WE WSJ MONITOR CHRISTIANITY TODAY hexuardians TEERIN Fiton out ONN WEB E NEWS CommoHeMSNBCW, we hamkowane BASIESSENT POLITIC Forbell UR. 170113 REAL VoViveThirty Eight -news Popular Information THE DISPATCH Quillette network MEDIATE South China reason Morning Post CURRENT AFFAIRS SOJOURNERS Progressing BEAM THUSPOSTA S THEBULWARK LITICS FAIR OBSERVER NEW YORK POST FOX RAWSTORY REASIL JACOBIN ROO SLATEIE WEEK MSNBCTV Zero HERT kucketch ANERIJUashington Daily Mail Cinco JEZEBEL Townhall counterpunch Bera Buster mrc FSTY CROOKSÁNDLIARS DAILY CALDERLY WIRE LifeNews.com DAILY KOS II/ eCCUPY DEMOCRATS PragerUFOX TV NEWS ALTERNET Newsmax Thinker BIPARTISAN REPORT Wonkette Licensed for social media sharing only SPECTATOR G AMERICAN PalmerReport Fully licensed versions available at adfontesmedia.com BALO GPNFOWARS Natural.News ENQUIRER BEFORE IT’S NEWS WORLDTRUTH.TV Opinion OR High Variation in Reliability OAN LifeZette Selective Incomplete, Unfair Persuasion Propaganda, or Other issues American GREATNESS Contains Misleading Info LESS Contains Inaccurate Fabricated Info LEFT Bias RIGHT Copyright © 2021 Ad Fontes Media, Inc. More sources, methodology, details, licenses, and usage information available at adfontesmedia.com Twitter: @adfontesmedia General purpose: To persuade Specific purpose: To persuade my audience that we should break the gender bias in the industry. Central idea: People should break the gender bias in their industries, support gender equality, and let people pursue their desired careers. This works, but could be more specific. Purchase answer to see full attachment Tags: CREDIBLE SOURCES Desired Career gender equality User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following our company’shonor code & terms of service.

MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

Guidelines for referring to the works of others in your text using MLA style are covered throughout the MLA Handbook and in chapter 7 of the MLA Style Manual. Both books provide extensive examples, so it’s a good idea to consult them if you want to become even more familiar with MLA guidelines or if you have a particular reference question.

BASIC IN-TEXT CITATION RULES

In MLA Style, referring to the works of others in your text is done using parenthetical citations. This method involves providing relevant source information in parentheses whenever a sentence uses a quotation or paraphrase. Usually, the simplest way to do this is to put all of the source information in parentheses at the end of the sentence (i.e., just before the period). However, as the examples below will illustrate, there are situations where it makes sense to put the parenthetical elsewhere in the sentence, or even to leave information out.

General Guidelines

• The source information required in a parenthetical citation depends (1) upon the source medium (e.g. print, web, DVD) and (2) upon the source’s entry on the Works Cited page.
• Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry on the Works Cited page.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS: AUTHOR-PAGE STYLE

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author’s last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author’s name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (263).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information:

Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. Oxford UP, 1967.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS FOR PRINT SOURCES WITH KNOWN AUTHOR

For print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as “symbol-using animals” (3).

Human beings have been described as “symbol-using animals” (Burke 3).

These examples must correspond to an entry that begins with Burke, which will be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of an entry on the Works Cited page:

Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. University of California Press, 1966.