It is critical to evaluate your sources for your college assignments. Your professors expect you to gather information that is of high quality and comes from authoritative sources. Therefore you need to evaluate efficiently every information source you come across.
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This tutorial offers some general guidelines about how to treat information you find on the internet.
This short video by iLearning Library Services from BYU will show you how to apply basic criteria to evaluate sources when conducting research.
Currency is about the timeliness of the information. This is essential in topics dealing with health sciences and sciences fields because information is constantly changing.
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The relevancy of the information has to deal directly with your topic and assigment.
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Knowing the author's or creator's credentials is key on evaluating sources. Information from a scholar or expert in a discipline will be more reliable.
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High quality information can be verified.
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Everyone has an agenda and you need to evaluate the information from different perspectives.
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