| Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page | Warrington, Kovalyova, and King “Assessing Source Credibility for Crafting
a Well-Informed Argument.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 3, |
| Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words | This article was one that I found not only interesting, yet I found it to be helpful for what I need to know now, and in the future. To sum up this article, we were given tips and examples on how to know when a source is or is not credible. Throughout Writing classes, we are assigned quite often research projects, which then needs you to be able to find sources, which need to be credible. This article gave us online examples of websites to determine if they were credible or not. The Author used an animal shelter as an example, and walked us through how to determine the credibility. This article also gave me a more broad idea on why it is so important to make sure that your sources are credible. I think it is so important because if you are trying to inform someone on a topic and your research is not true, this could lead to upset readers. |
| Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. | “Animals are not ours to experiment on, eat, wear, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way.” |
| How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?
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This reading connects to our Writing class in general, it has always been important to be able to locate what is credible and what is not when forming an essay, and this provided a deeper understanding of determining what is and isnt credible. |
| Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. | How do you know when a source is credible or not? |