The document provides an agenda and guidance for research and citations for an assignment. It discusses finding credible sources through the library database, search engines, and digging deep beyond top search results. It also reviews writing a bibliography in MLA format and the assignment which is to find two sources on a speech topic and answer questions, including writing an MLA bibliography.

1. Agenda
• Read chapters 4 & 5
– Quiz due Sunday midnight
• Today
– Research & Citations
– Speaking order
– Assignment due Sunday midnight
• Next Week
– Outlines, Audience Analysis
– Read chapters 6,7,8

2. Sources & Citations
How & Where to Find Credible Sources

3. Where Do I Start?
• NIC Library database
– Scholarly journals
– Periodicals
– Government archives
– E-books and real books
• The Internet
– Multiple search engines
– Library recommendations
– Try sweetsearch.com

4. How does Google work?
• Key Words
– Spiders, crawlers, site maps
• PageRank
– Frequency and location of keywords
– How long the Web page has existed
– Number of other Web pages that link to the
page

5. Dig Deep
• The best sites are not always on top
• Check for credibility:
– Who hosts the site?
– How current is it?
– Does it appear to be biased?
– Are there citations & references?
– Don’t always trust the domain
• Eg. Martinlutherking.org

6. Search the Library
• NIC links to many other libraries
• Provides access to thousands of books
and periodicals
• Peer reviewed journals
• Other university databases
• Academic archives
• Journalistic archives

7. Write Your Bibliography
• MLA tip sheet (workbook, Blackboard)
• Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab)
– Electronic Citations
• Easy Bib
• Son of Citation Machine
• MLA Handbook
• Ask librarian or writing lab for assistance

8. Review
• Assignment:
– Source & Citations Worksheet in Week 2
folder
– Find two (2) sources for your speech topic
and answer the questions
– Write MLA bibliography for your sources
• Please include the URL for sources if electronic