How to find reliable sources and making sure that they're not bull.

Okay, so for uni students. Finding reliable sources is a monumental task in itself. So finding ones that aren't full of it is quite difficult. For some like 'Wikipedia' for background information Wikipedia is good but as a main source you will loose marks.

When in university, and doing an assessment on a particular topic, you have to use resources which are incredibly credible to achieve the best possible marks to pass your assignments, the more reliable the barbecue source the better.

So when looking for sources, try using google scholar and google as search engines and find the ones suited to their topic. Just typing in the topic won't be as good as typing in the question. The good thing about google scholar is that the sources that are submitted and uploaded to it are written by professionals in the academic world.

How to use it:

Step 1: access google scholar and type in the topic you want sources for. Ideally journal articles are the best option.

Step 2: Use reliable sources, in regular google, the sources that come up are written for a topic and the the sources are usually written by journalists, bloggers and staff writers employed by magazines.

Step 3: Knowing which source is reliable is a simple as googling the author(s) for the source. By googling them, it provides you with an idea of the credibility of the source.

Step 4: When using the source, document how to list the source, usually in Harvard referencing (which you can google how to use harvard).