Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Reliable and Unreliable Sources
Reliable and Unreliable Sources
Reliable and Unreliable Sources
Unreliable Sources
■ Reliable Sources = TRUSTWORTHY SOURCES
– Written by experts in that particular field
■ News sources:
– Every television and print news source has a website
– Beware! Sometimes their focus is to entertain rather than inform**
■ If the entry goes past the first line, you need to make a hanging
indention. This is done by pressing “enter” and then “tab”
– Parenthetical citations are simply you stating where you found this information in
the actual paper. Anything that did not come from your brain will have a
How to format entries…
General Webpage:
■ Title of Page. Date page was published. Organization or Owner of Page. Date you
accessed the page. <entire URL>
■ Google Scholar
■ Destiny
■ NC Wise Owl