Evaluate your sources
Evaluating sources is a crucial step in the research process for students. They must learn to pose questions about the books, periodical articles, or multimedia sources they find. Here are some tools to help them learn to evaluate resources:
How to Critically Analyze Information Sources.
Lists some of the critical questions you should ask when you consider the appropriateness of a particular book, article, media resource, or Web site for your research.
Distinguishing Scholarly from Non-Scholarly Periodicals: A Checklist of Criteria.
Shows how to evaluate periodicals by looking at their format, intended audience, and appearance.
Evaluating Web Resources
Lists ways to analyze the Web sites you find.
How to Identify Scholarly Journal Articles
This segment discusses how to recognize and find scholarly journal articles.
