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Primary sources include first-hand accounts, autobiographies, and other original content.
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If you're working on a topic related to medicine or psychology, ensure that your sources follow these special guidelines.
If you're creating a new article, consider the following:
Ensure that your topic meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines.
In order for a topic to meet the notability requirement, you must be able to identify 2-3 sources that are reliable, verifiable, and independent of the subject you're writing about.
Finding sufficient sources to establish notability can be especially hard when writing about people or organizations.
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This is where you will compile the bibliography for your Wikipedia assignment. Add the name and/or notes about what each source covers, then use the "Cite" button to generate the citation for that source.
Newspaper article by Ann Hyman. Florida times Union. publication may 29, 1997. ProQuest
The article goes on about the early life of Jack McDevitt and the different key points in his life. From the early years of his childhood in the snow to his motivational speaking days with the police. Eventually leading on into the short stories he would later create including what have been the most recent one at the time of publication, that being Eternity Road. But overall it is a summation of McDevitt's life.
newspaper article by Hartford Courant of Tribune Publishing company, LLC. Date May 25, 1997 ProQuest
This article follows the brief summation of the book Eternity Road and gives it a review of the being a not so special plot but a good story overall.
the next is an article from publishersweekly.com
The article gives an overview of the book Eternity Road as the rest have done but this article goes into how Eternity Road takes to much from previous books such as the one from Ray Bradbury were they are willing to risk it all for old knowledge and how the books overtone on social dynamics is a bit rudimentary. [1]
