Source Evaluation Name: Date: Source Title: 1 2 3 4 5 Score Who? is the Author Some Some Author Author is a author background evidence publications has known is unknown author in this area several authority in works in by the published this area the area author works in this area What? - Content and Only of Some of the Several Content relevance arguments little content is points and of little or no relevance relevant to made are arguments relevance to to your task of closely the task task requirement relevance match your to the task needs Where? - Publisher or News- Evidenced Main Purely location of author has paper or article from motivation academic publisher/source clear online paper / appears to interest; economic or article, magazine / be academic political opinion database, academic paper, stake in the piece may have interest peer subject some bias reviewed When? - was it Date is Old Between 10 Between 5 Up-to-date published unknown reference and 20 and 10 source, - older years old years old published than 20 in last 5 years years Total: NOTE: You should be trying to find sources whose score is at least a 15/20 Comments:
Source Evaluation Name: Date: Source Title: 1 2 3 4 5 Score Who? is the author Author background is unknown Some evidence author works in the area Some publications in this area by the author Author has several published works in this area Author is a known authority in this area What? - relevance Content and arguments of little or no relevance to the task Only of little relevance to your task Some of the content is relevant to task requirement Several points made are of relevance to the task Content and arguments closely match your needs Where? - location of publisher/source Publisher or author has clear economic or political stake in the subject News- paper or online article, opinion piece Evidenced article from paper / magazine / database, may have some bias Main motivation appears to be academic interest Purely academic interest; academic paper, peer reviewed When? - was it published Date is unknown Old reference - older than 20 years Between 10 and 20 years old Between 5 and 10 years old Up-to-date source, published in last 5 years Total: NOTE: You should be trying to find sources whose score is at least a 15/20 Comments:
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