LESSON 4

• EVALUATING SOURCES - Necessary to ensure the credibility of a source
• Why do we need to evaluate sources? To find the best information to support your ideas.
• Risk - may cause confusion
• Validity - whether a test measures what it aims to measure
• Credibility - if by professionals.
• Relevance to the Topic - How well does the source support your topic?

  • Check the title and headers of the text.
  • Look at the table of contents, summary/abstract, and introduction.
• Author’s Qualifications - is the author’s background related to the topic?

  • If the source does not have an author, think twice before using it.
• Date of Publication - When is the work published. It should be five years earlier at most. 
• Accuracy of Information - how is the author’s tone and style of writing? The writing must be formal with no sense of bias or prejudice. 

  • Avoid using contractions.
• Location of Sources Where is the source published?

  • Avoid using blogs or Wiki sites. It must have complete public information. Academic domains have .edu, .gov, .net, and .org,
• WHY DO WE CITE?

  • To give credit to the author of the original work.
  • To promote scholarly writing done in institutions.
  • To help your target audience to identify your original source.
• what is the two types of citation?

  reference and in-text citation
• Reference - bibliographic entries of all references. Appears in the reference list.
• In-text - used in a certain part of their essay.
• Parenthetical - Is simply labeled as a source.
• Narrative - The citation is part of the idea that of which you expound on.
• On October 2019, the American Psychological Association (APA) introduced the 7th edition of the publication manual, replacing the 6th edition published in 2009.