ENG 111: College Composition I (Hughes-Loudoun)

Search Google for your topic keywords. Look for government, education, and/or organization webpages as well as news/magazine publications. Be cautious if using Wikipedia as the content cannot be verified.

Before using information found on a webpage, consider the following criteria to evaluate its credibility.

• Who is the author?
• What are his/her qualifications?
• Why was the website created?
• When was it last updated?
• How reliable is the information?

For further guidance, please refer to NOVA Libraries' How to...Evaluate Websites research guide.

Scholarly resources may not be apparent if you simply "Google." You can increase the likelihood that an authoritative resource appears at the top of your results by limiting your search by filetype (filetype:pdf) or domain (site:gov or site:edu or site:org). Alternatively, you can begin your search at Google Scholar. 

Internet Archive Scholar is a good alternative to Google Scholar. For scientific literature, there is Semantic Scholar. 

You might even try Perplexity, ResearchRabbit, or Elicit, three Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Assistants. You may have to "sign up," but it's free and worth experimenting with this AI tool. We suggest these tools over generic AI tools as they are designed for research purposes and display the source for the resources they present to users.