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    Evaluating

    Information
    Sources
    Purpose
    and
    intended
    What is the purpose of the source?:
    audience
    • To provide information (e.g.,
    newspaper articles)
    • To persuade or advocate (e.g.,
    editorials or opinion pieces)
    • To entertain (e.g., a viral video)

    2
    Purpose
    and
    intended Who is the intended audience?
    audience

    • Scholars and academic


    researchers with specialized
    knowledge

    3
    Currency
    and
    timeliness
    When was the information published?
    • For books and articles - you should be
    able to easily verify the publication
    date.
    • For websites, try to determine the date
    the web page was created or updated

    4
    Objectivity
    or Bias
    Does the source contain opinions or
    facts?
    • Is the information presented in the
    source objective (unbiased) or
    subjective (biased)?

    5
    1
    THE
    IMPORTANCE
    OF CITING
    SOURCES

    6
    “

    7
    “
    ▹ Dictionaries has defined plagiarism as “the
    practice of taking someone else’s work or
    ideas and passing them off as one’s own.”
    Synonyms for plagiarism include: copying,
    infringement of copyright, piracy, stealing;
    informal cribbing, library theft, academic
    misconduct—unfavorable words that anyone
    would surely like to avoid.

    8
    “
    Plagiarism is not always blatantly
    committed. You may unknowingly
    commit plagiarism due to carelessness,
    as when you fail to cite all your sources
    and instead come up with incomplete
    bibliographic entries in the reference
    list.
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