One of the most important research skills you will learn is the ability to summarize a source in your own words. Once you have settled on a topic for your Rhetorical Strategies Persuasive Essay (see the assignment description

One of the most important research skills you will learn is the ability to summarize a source in your own words. Once you have settled on a topic for your Rhetorical Strategies Persuasive Essay (see the assignment description under Week 5: Assignments, for more details), you’ll need to start searching for appropriate sources.

Once you have found a source, summarize it in a post below. Then discuss the credibility of the source by identifying the author’s background, credentials, and relationship to the topic. Make an overall assertion regarding whether or not the source is credible, and explain why. Finally, use the APA resources in class and Chapter 29 in your text to write out the full reference of the source, and include that in your post.

Please follow these steps to find a source using the DeVry Online Library:

Go to http://library.devry.edu/ (Links to an external site.)

Click on Databases.

Select EBSCOhost

Enter search terms in the top box. Click “Search.” (As you are typing, a list of suggested topics will appear below your search terms to help guide you.)

Your results list will appear. Browse, focusing in closely on the article title, publication date, date, and length of the article to help you decide which ones are most useful.

Search Tips:

Use short phrases

To make the results list more manageable, use limiters, such as “Full Text,” or narrow the publication date range.

How to Create a Reference in APA format:

In EBSCOhost, click on an article in the result list.

Look to the right side of the screen. Click on “Cite.”

Scroll down to APA. Copy the reference.

Make capitalization corrections as needed. For author names, only the first letter of the last name, and the initial, are capitalized. Article titles use sentence capitalization style, meaning only the first word of the title, the first word of the subtitle, and any proper nouns are capitalized.