Sources

When I am looking for a source to use for English 101, I either go to the library’s home page and use their search engine through the Jstor or I go to Google and type in the article topic I’m looking for. Google also has a way to search specifically for scholarly articles. You go to the top of the home page, click more, and then click scholar. I’ve found a lot of good sources there. Some of them are even the same articles that I found in the library search engine so I know that it is just as good of a way to find sources. Google also has books online for free that you can read, I always find these to be great sources for my papers.
Choosing which sources to use is not very hard for me. I usually write my paper first and then go back and add my sources in. this makes it easy for me to know what sources to specifically look for because I already know what I talked about in my paper and I know what will compliment it well. I’ll read through the sources and find quotes that are interesting to me, then read through my paper and see if there is a good place to quote it. If it doesn’t go well with my paper I will not use it and keep reading the article to find a different quote.
To improve my method for finding sources would probably to spend more time looking through the sources so I can find the best source for my paper. Also, to look through more sources instead of just the first couple of articles that the search engines come up with, and to type in different words to try in the search box to get different sources than the search came up with the first time. Other than that, I like the method I use to find sources for my papers.