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Sometimes nothing backs up your points like a hard number or statistic. Below are some credible websites to find polling information and statistics.
Newspapers can be a good way to find information on a local topic. Be careful, however! Newspapers are NOT considered scholarly sources, so make sure you are allowed to use newspaper articles in your speech before you do so.
Use the CRAAP test for evaluating websites:
Use Google Advanced to find authoritative online sources (websites). Enter your search term(s) and limit domain to .edu or .gov.
Pro Tip: in general, your instructors do not consider e-journals and e-books to be online sources (the internet is your means of access)
Use Google Advanced to limit your results to a specific domain: .edu or .gov
You can also do this in a regular Google search by adding site:.edu to the end of your search terms (.i.e. Alexander Hamilton site:.edu)