Purdue OWL: Evaluating Sources of Information
The Online Writing Lab at Purdue University provide an excellent overview of how to evaluate resource for research project.
The Modern Language Association of America (MLA) has just released the 8th Edition of the MLA Handbook (2016). For the purposes of your course your Professor would like you to continue to use the 7th Edition of the MLA Handbook (2009). Copies of both editions are available in the UTM Library.
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