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ASIAN 2218: Introduction to Korea

A research guide for Professor Soyi Kim's class

Evaluation

How to Critically Analyze Information Sources

  • Initial Appraisal: Author; Date of publication; Edition; Publisher
  • Critical Analysis of the Content: Preface; Table of contents; Index; Bibliographies; Abstract etc.


Distinguishing Scholarly from Non-Scholarly Periodicals: A Checklist of Criteria

  • Scholarly journal are also called academic, peer-reviewed, or refereed journals
  • To check if a journal is peer-reviewed/refereed, search the journal by the title in Ulrich's Periodical Directory.
  • Abstract; bibliographies or footnotes; authors and their affiliations

 

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