For many of your assignments, you will need to do research to find scholarly sources. Thus, understanding how to find and use scholarly sources is important in your academic work.

• Instructors often recommend that you start with the library databases or Research Guides to discover scholarly sources because these resources generally are more focused in terms of subject matter and more reliable than search engines like Google.
• Here is a link to the Library Resources page: Library Resources

Materials on the rest of this page will lead you through the following academic functions:

• Determining the credibility (ethos) and reliability of a source, as well as comprehending the multitude of sources available to you at Baker College for your research.

• Demonstrating and understanding what makes a source scholarly.

• Engaging in key strategies to help you with reading through scholarly texts.