The Research Process

Remember that you want to include evidence to prove that your ideas are true. Without evidence, your readers might not believe you. Once you find evidence, you must tell the reader where your evidence came from. However, remember that there is a certain way that you must set up your essay and reveal where you found your sources: MLA Format. Watch the videos below to review the Research Process:

MLA Format

Review the video below that demonstrates how to set up your essay in MLA Format:

Finding and Documenting Reliable Sources

Remember that your sources must be from appropriate websites if you are finding the sources online. Using search engines like Gale and Galileo will always yield reliable sources, so make sure to ask your instructor for the password to use Galileo.

Review the video below for instructions on using general search engines to find and cite reliable websites:

Using Galileo to find and Cite Reliable Sources

Review the video below for instructions on using Galileo to find and cite reliable sources:

The Source Citation vs. In-Text Citation

Let's review how the source citation looks (on the Works Cited page) and also what the corresponding in-text citation looks like in the body of the essay.

Source Citation & In-text Citation for An Article from Galileo

Source Citation & In-text Citation for An Article from a Website

Remember that once you finish writing your essay, you will create a Works Cited with all of the Source Citations for the sources you actually used in the body of your essay as evidence. Continue through the module to understand how to create a Works Cited in the final stages of completing the essay.

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