Unit 6 Week 12 Evaluating Sources Weekly Overview

Week 12: EVALUATING SOURCES

Conducting research is all about information literacy--knowing the best methods for getting the best information.

Evaluating sources is an important part of this process. When you work on evaluating sources, you're working on a skill that synthesizes numerous critical reading strategies: Annotation, Observation, Reflection, Questioning, Analyzing. 

These pre-reading steps are necessary if you are going to be able to evaluate a source appropriately.

This week we'll work in our Research Groups to examine the same article. You and your group members will select a text together that you've been assigned from your English 1A class. This text could be any sort of "text," really--visual, literary, or academice (as in, a scholarly journal article from the library). 

You'll be asked to review material in A Writer's Reference and then develop your evaluation based on the questions offered in several of the R-Tab guiding charts: "Evaluating All Sources" "Evaluating Web Sources" and "Determining if a Source is Scholarly"

Lets get started first, though, with our Road Map and then a few more videos about research.