Distance Learning for Online College: Cite your sources

Always use citations when:

• quoting directly from a source
• including statistics or other factual information
• paraphrasing or summarizing an author's main idea

For more tips, see this guide from Duke University Libraries.

The CRAAP Test is a list of questions (developed at Meriam Library at California State University, Chico) to help you analyze the validity of a source.  Here is a short list of things to look for to see if your information source passes the CRAAP test:

Here's the original: