ECON 255: Econometrics: Evaluating, Citing, & Writing

Use the resources below to analyze the sources you plan to use in your assignments.

Lateral reading is an evaluation technique used by professional fact-checkers to determine the trustworthiness of online information. Watch the video to learn more about this technique.

It is important to acknowledge all sources you have used in your writing assignments. See the links below for information on what you need to cite and examples.

Use a Citation Manager

A citation manager stores all your citations in a searchable database so that you can:

• Format your footnotes or endnotes automatically in the style of your choice (APA, Chicago, MLA, etc.).
• Format your bibliography automatically.
• Insert references into a Word document with a click.
• Create and format an annotated bibliography.

The library supports the desktop and online version of EndNote.

You'll be doing a great deal of technical writing in this course. In many ways, technical writing subverts the expectations of academic writing that you may be used to. Good technical writing is clear, concise, and front-loads the most important information.