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Research is fundamental in many aspects of your life, not just school. With the access to information from the internet, you need to be prepared and have an arsenal of techniques in your toolbox when gathering sources.
The CRAAP test uses a series of questions that address specific evaluation criteria. These questions include currency, relevance, authority, accuracy, and purpose. By having these questions in your toolbox, you'll be able to scan resources quicker, and decide how they will or not fit.
Running CRAAP on the sources you are looking at can be a great start in building techniques and learning what can and won't be a good source to use. Remember you are not looking at excluding sources, but trying to figure out if what they are saying can help your argument in the right ways.
Citing your sources means to give credit to where the information comes from. Citation helps you to avoid plagiarism and maintain academic integrity, acknowledge the work of others, provide credibility to your work & to place your work in academic context, and help your future researching self & other researchers easily locate sources
Use Technical Resources
There are tools online and tools built into Word and Google Docs that allow you to keep track and can even build your reference list when you're done your research. However always make sure to double check that it is correct.
Look Over Citation Style Guides
Have an idea of what your professor or teacher is looking for. read through citation style guides. Every style is different from the next, and they also have formatting guides as well.
Plan Ahead
Waiting until last second to create your citations can lead to missing vital pieces of the puzzle, as well as missing entire resources you used. Plan what resources will be used once decided, and plan from there.
Great Sites & Subject Guides for Citation Tools
Great Sites & Subject Guides for Citation Tools
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