could the college board be used as an authority in an english paper?

Question

what i mean is if it could be an authority or do authorities have to be actual people? yes i know it sounds dumb but i have to know

Answer 1

If a board or organization puts out official statements that are not attributed to individual members of the organization, then it can be an authority.

Answer 2

That entirely depends upon the point of your paper. Are you looking at quantitive statistics gathered and published by the College Board? Then I say that you could use it.

I really need a little more information about what your paper is about and why you want to use the College Board as a source before determining if it's a good idea to use it as a source.

I would say, in the general sense, that information directly from a representative is better than information disseminated to a secondary or tertiary source.

Answer 3

Yes why not you can use anything in a paper as long as you cite it at the end.