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Evaluating Sources
Review & Assignment

Lesson Five Review

  • What are the advantages and disadvantages of each format of materials (reference, books, periodicals, and web pages)? Can you identify which format would be best for a particular research question?
  • Can you list three differences between popular magazines and scholarly journals?
  • What does "peer review" mean?
  • What are the six evaluation criteria? Do you know how to apply them to a book, article, or web site?
Assignment
  • Choose a website that came up during your search in Lesson 4, but that you woud not use for your topic. List the name of the site and the URL. Evaluate it using the six evaulation criteria discussed in this lesson. For each criterion, write at least one sentence and submit it to on the course WebCT Assignments page. (See the example on the previous page.)


  • Take the WebCT Quiz for this lesson.
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