Your assignment is to collect a set of sources to use in writing your research paper.  You will be required to bring in the sources themselves, or Xerox copies of the pages that you expect to use, or digital files of the sources.

You should read through your sources before bringing them in, marking the sections that you think you’ll actually use.

How many sources are enough? It varies, depending on how good each source is. You can expect that you’ll need a few sources for each page that you write, so you should aim for a total of 8-12 useful sources for a 6-10 page paper.

The sources can be the following:

REQUIRED:

Articles from magazines, journals, and newspapers

Information from websites and webpages

RECOMMENDED:

Books in your field (but not textbooks or general encyclopedias)

OTHER SOURCES:

Pamphlets and brochures

Videotapes or DVDs

Notes from an interview

Where do you find your sources?  Here is a link to a helpful list of Research Databases.  Also, use the various resources that you explored when you completed the Website Reviews assignment.  

You will need to keep track of the bibliographic information about each source that's required for your research paper's documentation.  So, make sure you have exact titles, authors, dates, publishers, page numbers, and web addresses.

Here are two helpful hints:

(1) Order as soon as possible books and articles from other libraries, and

(2) Use a system to organize your sources, such as putting a number on each individual page.