Citing Your Reliable Sources
M*Powered Digital Resource Kit
David Warlick from Citation Machine says:
How to Tell Misinformation from Real Information: Who? Why? Verify!
Ask yourself WHO wrote it, WHY they wrote it, and VERIFY it is from a trusted source. (LINK)
1) The Wikipedia Trick: To determine if a source is reputable, type the name of the website in a Google search bar, followed by the word Wikipedia. Read the first few paragraphs about the source in the Wikipedia article to see if the source is a legitimate, unbiased source.
2) Lateral reading: Check to see if a story is legit by seeing if you can find more stories like it from other reputable sources. Premium library resources like Britannica or Gale, or Google.com, or news.google.com are good starting points. If you are not sure if the sites that they take you to are credible, do the Wikipedia trick (see #1 above)!
3) Reverse Image Searches: To fact check an image, you can either describe the picture in words in a Google search or use the globe icon image search in Chrome to track down its origins. To use a reverse image search in Chrome, right-click the image.
(Tips from "Riveting Research..." by Shirley Dickey and Laura Gladney-Lemon - LINK)
M*Powered to Correctly Cite a Website, Image, etc.
- Citing Your Sources - a Website Flow Chart
- Create a "Citation Catcher" using a Google Doc or Slide. Name it "Works Cited" OR "Bibliography."
Use the Chrome Extension "Cite This For Me" or "MyBib Citation Generator" (select MLA) while on a website to get information &/or an image to create a citation.
Paste the citation in your "Citation Catcher" - your Works Cited page in Google Doc or Slide.
M*Powered to Cite an Image Found Through a Google Search
Use the Google Extension, "Cite This for Me" or "MyBib Citation Generator" to correctly cite the image from the original website using the latest MLA format.
M*Powered to Correctly Cite an Ebook or Book
- When citing the information you get from an ebook, use the citation link provided with the digital copy of the book.
- If you find a print book in Destiny Discover, citations are already made for a print book in Destiny Discover! See: How to cite a print book - link
- How to cite an ebook in EBSCOHost ebook, K-8 edition
- When citing a print book (not in Destiny Discover) use a citation creator website such as Citation Machine, MyBib, or EasyBib.
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