Your Research Guide
This guide helps you find, sort, and use sources effectively for your proposal essay. Some pages you'll read straight through once. Others — especially Sort & Vet — you'll come back to again and again while you're actually researching.
What's in This Guide
Section 1
BEAM
What job is a source doing — Background, Evidence, or Argument? Start here.
Section 2CRAAP
Once you know a source's job, how do you tell if it's actually trustworthy?
Section 3Sort & Vet
The tool you'll actually use while researching: sort a source, then vet it.
Section 4Integrating Sources
Quoting, paraphrasing, and giving a source credit in your own writing.