St Louis News Sources:

St. Louis Post Dispatch
KMOV 4
KTVI Fox 2 Now
KMOX CBS St. Louis
KSDK 5 On Your Side
The Riverfront Times
KWMU STL Public Radio

Boolean Search Tips:

Use "quotation marks" to search for an exact phrase.
  • "climate change"
Use OR to broaden your search to find related terms
  • female OR women
Use AND to search for sites that include more than one specific term, but not necessarily in the same phrase.
  • poverty AND education
Use NOT to exclude a specific term.
  • president NOT vice
Use (parentheses) to combine the modifiers above in a complex search.
  • (college OR university) AND (engineering NOT robotics)

Citing Your Sources:

Easy Bib for creating citations
**DO NOT skip the page with orange boxes that says "add any information you have below." It is up to you to make sure your citations are correct. Do not rely solely on Easy Bib!
Purdue Owl: 

Essay Requirements:

  • ​4-5 pages
  • 5 sections, including an introduction and conclusion
  • Times New Roman font, size 12, double spaced
  • Centered title
  • Last name and page number in top right header
  • In-text citations following the "rule of three"
  • Works Cited page
  • At least 3 sources from 2 different news organizations