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Evaluating Sources Part 2: Authority & Expertise
Learning Outcomes for this Module Tools What You’ll Need What We Used Forum for discussion and reflection posts Padlet Platform to share an introduction to “Authority is Constructed & Contextual” Microsoft365/PowerPoint & YouTube How to Credit Us Except where otherwise noted, the lesson plans on this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. To […]
Reading Strategies
Learning Outcomes for this Module LO2: Critically assess information sources in pursuit of various purposes. LO3: Ask thoughtful questions. LO6: Reflect upon your own research process. Continue reading
Citation
Learning Outcomes for this Module LO1: Define important concepts such as: authority, peer review, bias, point of view, editorial process, purpose, audience, information privilege and more. LO5: Cite information sources accurately and discuss why we cite. Continue reading
Introduction to Evaluating Sources
In this module we'll be thinking about how to evaluate the sources we find. The first step in evaluating a source is to identify what type of source it is, which can often help you to decide whether the source matches your information need. In this module, we'll be working with some types of sources that you might find in a library database, such as newspaper articles, encyclopedia articles, journal articles, and e-books. Continue reading
Orientation
Welcome to the orientation module! In this course, lessons (we call them "modules") will be posted every week on Tuesday. This orientation module, which we've posted a few days early, is meant to familiarize you with the course syllabus, our course site, and some tools we will be using throughout the semester. We are asking you to do several activities using several different tools. We hope this is not too tedious! We do this so that you will be prepared to use these same tools in assignments later in the semester and won't face frustrating technical difficulties at that point. While the work in Module 1 shouldn't be too time consuming, please don't wait until the last minute to complete it: allow yourself some time to work out any technical problems you might encounter. Continue reading
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