Source

1. If the Reviewer can answer "yes" to the 4 questions below, you'll earn $16 and 5-stars:
1. Do your sources completelyanswer the question?
Your Sourcing work must be robust enough for a Wonder Writer to completely answer the client's
question with examples, calculations, and relevant information. Please provide at least 5 strong, different
sources per request and at least 10 for lists. We do NOT expect you to include every single available source
on a particular topic; but please include all the sources a writer would need to fully answer the client’s question.
Most times, this will mean including more than the minimum amount
2. Are your sources less than 2 years old?
Sources must be as recent as possible, preferablywithin the last 24 months. In some cases, recent data
will not exist, so you’ll need to provide sources that are older than 2 years. If this is the case, you must directly
address this in your source notes.
For example, “This source shows that the market size of sneakers in the US is $2.5B. The source is from 2014
because this report is only published every 5 years.”
3. Do your source notes highlight the location of key information within the source
itself?
Each source note must help a Wonder Writer understand and find the key value of the article/report/etc. at
a glance.
Good Example:
p.3, the report cites the market size for U.S. sneaker sales as $5 billion.
Bad Example:
General summary of the sneaker market
Good Example:
The three big trends in food delivery are mobile ordering, payment via iWatch, and drone delivery.
Bad Example:
This article discusses recent trends in food delivery."
4. Does your summary note clearly explain how all of the sources listed fit together,
and does it list any assumptions or calculations made?
Your summary note explains how the sources connect together to fully answer the client's question. You must
outline any and all assumptions and calculations you’ve made to come to your conclusion so that the Wonder
Writer understands how to write up the answer.
5-Star Sourcing Notes Best Practice:
For each Source Note, please include the following in 1-2 sentences:
1. What is the statistic or main point of the Source?
2. Why is this important to answering the client's question?
3. Where in the article is this explained?
Here is the Sourcing Rubric that Reviewers use to determine a quality score:

2. 5 = The sources fully answered the client's request and the source/summary notes were good.
4 = The sources fully answered the client's request but the source/summary notes could have been clearer or
more helpful.
3 = I used the sources provided, but they didn't fully answer the client's request and I needed to do some more
sourcing myself.
2 = I used the sources provided, but they didn't fully answer the client's request and I needed to do a lot more
sourcing myself.
1 = The sources were unusable.
If the Reviewer answers “No” to any of the 4 questions above, the request will be sent back to the
Sourcing queue to be worked on from scratch by another Sourcer.