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English 1108 (Richter): Rez Life - MLA Summary-Evaluation Assignment

This guide will help students in Professor Richter's class find and evaluate an article for the MLA Summary-Evaluation assignment on a topic related to the book "Rez Life".

Internet Search Tips

Finding credible information on the internet can be tricky.  These search tips can help focus your search to more credible and current sites. 

1. Limit Your Results by Domain

Use Site:[.domain] along with your keywords in the Google search box to only find sites from that specific domain.  Example: site:.gov

                                         Google search for Federal Recognition AND tribes site:.gov

Websites that end with .gov and .edu sites may have more reliable information. If you are using a .org or a .com site, make sure you are evaluating the site for credibility.  (See the Evaluating Sources page of this guide for more information).

 

2. Limit Your Results by Date

  1. After your search results appear, click the Tools button (typically found underneath the search box, but above your results).
  2. An Any Time menu will appear above your search results.
  3. Open the menu and select a date range. You can also select Custom Range and enter custom dates (ex: 2017 - 2022).

                                      Google search results showing steps to limit by date. Click Tools, open anytime drop-down menu, select custom range.

 

Once you have applied a date limit, you will notice each of your results displays a date next to it.  This is a nice way to make sure you are not finding information that is too old.

                                       Google search results showing dates of results once date limit is applied.

 

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