Let's take a look at something now that
would be considered an online source:
a book I found using Google Books.
It's called Reality TV: Remaking
Television Culture.
In this section you can see the list
of footnotes for this chapter.
I can tell from the title of this book,
"Remaking Television Culture" is the
subtitle, that it's going to do more than
just talk about the latest reality TV news.
From that title, Remaking Television Culture,
I'm expecting this source to make some
connections with
the study of culture. With that said,
the sources in this bibliography include
newspapers, like the Christian Science Monitor,
and popular web sites, like Oprah.com.
Those two sources do not fall into the
scholarly source category
because their purpose is simply not
reporting research
but as we scroll down through the
footnotes I can see that the author uses
a variety of sources -
some books, some more newspapers,
some more web sites -
but then there's also evidence that the
author is drawing on scholarly sources
like this article called "Witnessing" that
was published in the journal Media
Culture and Society. If I scroll down the list
a little bit more, I can see another
example of a scholarly source the author
consulted
called "Why Has Critique Run out of Steam"
that was published in Critical Inquiry
Both of those are examples the of scholarly
sources the author used
and those'll be two sources that the author will use to
anchor some of those other popular sources
during his research process
In your course you'll find that it may not be
necessary to use
six or seven scholarly sources for each
research project
but you will likely be asked to include
some scholarly sources
to support examples you find in popular
sources.
