What was one of the lessons in this activity? It is a good idea to research the author of an opinion piece to discover possible biases and motives. An online citation generator can create all my citations for me. When writing a research paper, it’s fine to use a lot of quoted information as long as I correctly cite each quotation. I should not comment on social media posts that I disagree with.

Which action represents an accurate and ethical use of sources?a.)You slightly change the language of a quotation from a website so that it better supports your point. You then cite the source.b.)You can't find the date that a journal article was published, so you make a reasonable guess and include it in the citation.c.)You put quotation marks around a quote from a book you read. You can't remember which book it comes from, so you omit a citation.d.)You explain an argument from one of your sources in your own words, and you maintain the author’s original meaning. You then cite the source.

After reading a few different articles to write my paper on, I noticed the more trustworthy ones had more sited quotes. They also had facts and statistics going both for and against them. They had both their opinions and opposed opinions on the topic. Whereas the not so trustworthy sites do not cite their facts and it is all from one point of view of "credible" resources and all the opinions are on the same side. Seems that those who are trustworthy want to show not only why they believe their point of view is right but give you both sides so you can decide for yourself and encourage readers to do their own research.

My go to for an internet search is Google. I find that it has more relevant search results and suggestions than any other search engine. Once I find a result that interests me, I will immediately scrutinize the result to see if it provides sources and citations instead of it being a source that is based upon the opinion of the person that wrote it. Anything of a social media nature is not the type of sources that I find useful. I generally rely on .gov .edu sources as I feel they are far more credible and start there. I find that it helps me to weed out information that is not useful and I am far more successful in searching the internet with that method.

True or False: Citation allows you to showcase your ability to use various opinions and facts.Question 1Answera.Trueb.False

The only purpose of citing a source is to give credit to the author who originally published the information or idea.Nhóm lựa chọn câu trả lờiTrueFalse