Questionable Sources

Questionable sources are sources that fail to provide acknowledgement to the origin of the information, authors are either crowd-sourced or not experts in the field of the topic, any blogs without source citations, opinion pieces, and/or interviews with people who aren’t experts/have credibility.

Blogs: one way to evaluate if your source is a blog or an opinion piece is to examine the URL: if there is /blog/ or /opinion/ within the URL, ask your instructor for approval.

Known Questionable Sources (unacceptable for use without specific instructor approval):

Note: While these sources are considered questionable they might be a starting point for finding credible sources. For example, you can not cite Wikipedia as a credible source but, exploring an entry's reference list may lead you to a credible one.