paragraphs, which a usually the first sentence in the paragraph, as the one I suggested above. It will help readers understand the main point of the entire paragraph. After the topic sentences, you can show how the sources are connected under the topic sentence, and instead of summarizing the sources, synthesize
Information sources found at the library do not guarantee good or accurate research. One should be able to critically evaluate the information in order to conduct quality research. The researcher must carefully evaluate the articles to determine their credibility and quality. The formulation of clinical guidelines is a possible means by which evidence can be assimilated into nursing practice. Reliable research is needed to identify the most effective ways of developing and disseminating clinical
During high school and college, whenever I was assigned to write a research paper, my professors always emphasize, “Do not use Wikipedia as your source.” I followed this rule pretty well, but I have never thought deeply into the reasons behind why shouldn’t Wikipedia be cited as a source in research papers. After today’s reading, I gained a sense about what Wikipedia is, how it operates, and more importantly why it is an invalid citation for research papers. Wikipedia’s lack of defined authorship
Adam T. Miller Dr. Baker English 10 31 January 2023 For years English and History teachers everywhere have told their students that Wikipedia is not a reliable source, but are they right about that? Brett Potash recites a common mantra that encapsulates the credibility of Wikipedia, "It only works in practice. In theory, it can never work". When one thinks about the concept of a website anyone can edit, the immediate assumption is that chaos will ensue, vandals will put blatantly false information
new health concerns pop up. With this easy access though comes easy corruptions and miss leading information. Therefore it is important to understand where the information is coming from and how valid the source is. This paper is going to compare and contrast the same topic from two different sources. The first is Susan Donaldson James’ (2017) article “Mental Health Problems Rising Among College Students” which was published by NBC News, a news media giant. This paper is being
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the United States began to grow into an empire. Within the United States, policies of both expansionism, the policy of territorial or economic expansion, and imperialism, the policy of placing a nation under the political, military, or economic control of another nation, were considered. The United States’ first large step toward an empire came with the Spanish American War, a war fought because the United States wanted to buy Cuba from Spain during the
Primary sources are documents and artifacts that come directly from the past. For my primary source paper, I have selected to use the eleven Articles of Impeachment that were passed by Congress in 1868. This primary source is the main source that I use on my topic of President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trials. The eleven Articles of Impeachment are historical documents that were written with an agenda for a specific purpose and audience. As historians, it is essential that we analyze how the source
To demonstrate the biases that can be found in primary sources, the primary sources must first be analysed and then compared to secondary sources, which have been written after extensive research and collaboration. Primary sources alone should not be relied upon to provide clear and unbiased views of historical events as demonstrated by these documents. This essay will be focused on the events of the Gulf War with an analysis of primary sources such as the National Security Directive (45), a personal
In 1836, the gruesome death of a prostitute encaptivated the public eye and began a newspaper frenzy that centered on a morbid fixation of the life and death of Helen Jewett. Patricia Cline Cohen's The Murder of Helen Jewett pieces together the facts of Helen's life and death in an attempt to describe gender inequality in America by giving a meticulous account of life in the 1830s. (Insert small biography) Around three in the morning on Sunday, April 10, 1836 Rosina Townsend, the madam of the
A number of high schools, colleges, and universities have adopted an honor code to cultivate integrity amongst students at their institution. These principles vary from cheating to tardiness, to plagiarism and have garnered praise from multiple outlets for apparently being successful in preventing cheating and enforcing punishment for those who break the rules. However, others like myself, criticize the honor code due to skepticism in its abilities to prevent such rule breaking, its success in being
The men and crew of the Endurance were a strange picking out of hundreds, if you ask me. A motley crew of twenty-seven men, a wide mix of artisans, scientists, and seamen. Their leader, Sir Ernest Shackleton, was the only man keeping them from death. It isn’t flattery when people say that without The Boss, it is very possible that not all of the men would have made it back to England alive. The lack of casualties is astounding. The Irishman was an explorer at heart, a man whose soul seemed to be
are looked into. But, if someone is wrongly reported as being accused, it can damage one’s whole life. This happened to John Seigenthaler. He was wrongly accused on Wikipedia of being a murder suspect. This begs the question: is Wikipedia a reliable source? It is banned from some schools, even though that might be the wrong approach. Controversial topics are used when writing argumentative papers. For example, a debate going on right now is the legalization of marijuana. Someone writing a paper on
finding the best sources is key. For example, Guttmacher Institute’s article called Facts and Consequences: Legality, Incidence and Safety of Abortion Worldwide published in the Fall of 2009, written by Susan A. Cohen was found to be ineffective for backing up my claim of why abortion should be illegal; however The Wrong of Abortion written by Patrick Lee and Robert P. George was found to be effective in backing up my argument. In order to be aware of an effective or ineffective source you must analyze
Professor Denson and fellow classmates, I do not actually have any direct quotes in my research paper to pull from for this discuss, however for this sandwich I will create some. I have never used direct quotes due to the rules and regulations around them, to me, it is easier to write my story and paraphrase as needed. This is just my way of handing, and writing, and I as we all know have no issues talking so writing is just that on paper. With that said, here goes let’s make some sandwiches (:
internet is the inability to prove what, if anything, is true or credible. With common phrases such as “Don’t believe everything you read” and “Fake news,” it has become more important than ever to know what articles are reliable. One example of a source that claims to be trustworthy but is questionable at best is the website AskPetersen.com. Julie Petersen, who runs the website, claims to have everything to help readers “write a perfect essay” (Petersen, “Blog”). An example of one of Petersen’s “perfect”
Entry 13: Evaluating Your Sources The appropriate time to use sources in an essay will depend on your writing situation; such as the assignment, your purpose for writing and the type. Furthermore, it's important to use citations when using another person’s work from a site to avoid plagiarism. Then credit the writer or author from the source work within the sentence by quotation marks. Next, chose a reliable, honest and accurate site to support the evidence. Finally, sources that help answer your research
Introduction The claimed sources of information gives credibility to the information which can either be verifiable or not verifiable. For instance, the Pluto is bigger than the moon; this is a credible claim because it has scientific evidence. On the other hand, the day is longer than the night; I don’t think this is a credible claim because we cannot establish the source of the information. This same effect is applicable to media, some media houses are credible based on their track record and
A cause of corruption, discrimination and inequality, the cause of death of many innocent lives. Throughout the long history, racism has been a subject of much debate, most notably in The United states of America. There have been numerous actions that suggest that racial inequality might still be intact with America’s modern society, such as the extreme violence shown by the police that has been roaming all over social media recently. This has eventually led to the creation of the controversial “Black
How far could the historian use sources 10 and 12 together to investigate the Amritsar Massacre? The Amritsar Massacre occurred on the 13th of April, 1919. Both sources 10 and 12 are useful for investigating the Amritsar Massacre, however source 12 is more useful due to its nature of being a report by an investigational committee, whereas source 10 is a report by Dyer himself, making it more defensive. Both sources were produced at a time where the tensions between the British and the Indians were
The author uses additional sources very sparingly in the beginning of the book, but gradually increases when he expresses the real-life events that are occurring and relate to the plot of the story. The sources are credible, with many being from professors and articles reported directly from large journalist corporations. The writer’s use of sources brings a relatable effect to present day issues, as well as exposing the audience to conflict that one may not know about around them. The author uses