LibGuides: Writing Skills: Using Resources

Cast A Critical Eye
From the Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing, this "quick-read" chapter explains how to evaluate your sources, check their bias and purpose and whether they fit your topic, and how to create a working bibliography and connect sources to your thesis. (pp.255-262)

Determining Credible Sources
Handout with questions to help you determine the credibility of your sources.
Limiting to Peer Reviewed Articles in EBSCO
Scholarly or Peer-Reviewed Articles
This handout explains what scholarly or peer-reviewed articles are and how to find them.

Scholarly or Peer-reviewed vs. Popular Articles Tutorial
Examine examples of a popular source of information and a scholarly or peer-reviewed source, understand the characteristics of each source, and locate a peer-reviewed article in the NAU Online Library.
How to Find Reliable Websites
Also known as Finding Credible Websites: Evaluating Internet Sources (7 min.)
Fake News Webinar (50 mins)
Smart Searching 3
How to use boolean operators
(5 min.)

How to Integrate Sources into Your Paper (University of Illinois)
"Integrating" a source means you use someone else's information to support your ideas.
Drafting and Integrating (Sources)
From Excelsior OWL: Learn how to support the points you are making in your essay or paper by summarizing main ideas, paraphrasing supporting materials, and quoting specific text.
Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting: A Guide to Doing It Right
YouTube video from Genessee Library (14 m, 12 s).
How to Include a Quotation in Your Paper
From Excelsior OWL, this short "Signal Phrases Activity" will demonstrate how to integrate a quotation into the text of your paper.
Quillbot
Quillbot is an AI writing and editing tool. It will paraphrase, summarize, and check grammar for free.