Evaluating sources
Assess your learning
Imagine you are doing research for an assignment on the health benefits and drawbacks of mobile phone use. You want to use up-to-date information and you do a quick Google search. A page comes up titled ‘Mobile phones and your health’. Take a look at the page and try evaluating it with that assignment in mind.
How did you get on?
Reflect on your learning
You have now considered a few key aspects of evaluating your information sources – who wrote them, why do they exist, and are they relevant? Can you see how these might apply to different sources of information you use for your studies and in your life outside of university?
To reflect on your learning in this area, try doing a web search for a topic you are studying. Take a look at the first three different websites and try evaluating them. Which parts of evaluating information are the easiest to apply? Which are the hardest? And do they help you consider which of these sources you might use?
Where you have been
Where you are now
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