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USING INTERNET RESEARCH ASSIGNMENTS

CARS SOURCE EVALUATION WORKSHEET

SOURCE TITLE:
URL:
AUTHOR:

 
YES
NO
MAYBE
CREDIBILITY      
1. Does the author provide credentials, affiliations, and contact information?      
2. Has the article undergone quality control?      
3. Is the article written in an professional tone?      
4. Is the article free of grammatical errors?      
ACCURACY      
5. Is the information current/up to date?      
6. Is the information comprehensive, without any holes?      
7. Does the author have a hidden agenda?      
REASONABLENESS      
8. Does the article present a fair, well balanced argument?      
9. Is it "selling" you with what it presumes you want to hear?      
10. Does it follow your sense of how the world works?      
11. Is the article consistent in its argument?      
SUPPORT      
12. Does the article cite credible sources      
13. Do others corroborate the information?      

TOTALS:
     

CONCLUSIONS:

 

 

 

 


Adapted from Evaluating Internet Research Sources, Robert Harris, Vanguard University, 1997