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FILM 206: Academic Research & Writing Methods for Film & Media

Evaluating Sources

Evaluating your sources is a crucial step of the research process. You need to evaluate carefully each source to determine its appropriateness and quality.

Check our Evaluating Sources Checklist for criteria used to judge information sources and our Scholarly and Popular Resources page to distinguish between scholarly and popular publications.

It is particularly important to evaluation information that you find on the Web. Because there are no rules and anyone can post a page on the Web, you will have to determine whether the web site is of value. Go to Evaluating Web Sources for specific criteria used to analyze websites.

Check our Distinguishing Scholarly Journals from Other Periodicals page in order to evaluate periodicals by looking at their content, purpose, and intended audience.

Citing Your Sources

MLA is the preferred style of documentation for Film 206. Check out these sites for information on citing sources:

For more information on citation, especially citation manager programs and electronic citation, see the Queen's Library's guides:

           Citation Examples 

           MLA Guide to Digital
          
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