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7th grade Reading Montero/Gonzalez/Gutierrez

Research Paper

Sources are references and evidence a writer uses in his or her research that influence and support their work.

Examples of Sources? Books – Autobiography of Benjamin

Franklin by Benjamin Franklin Articles – The LA Times, Time Magazine Journals - www.eric.ed.gov Interviews – First or second hand

interviews

To provide authenticity/credibility to research

To provide compelling support for one’s topic or argument

Organized citing allows one’s sources to be verified by the readers

Citation limits plagiarism Proper citation saves the writer lots of

academic and legal problems

Libraries Online Scholarly Journals Internet Websites Newspapers Video Collections (ex. Documentaries) The Community (ex. Local government

offices like city hall)

Known author Part of a respected academic

community Ex. Associated with Universities

Rely on research Printed by established publishing

companies Objective Part of information centers

Are extremely biased No author Independent blogs (not all of the time) Though convenient, .com and .org

websites can often be unreliable but there are exceptions (ex. Time Magazine)

Lack evidence and are purely opinion based

Do not cite their own sources