purcom (3)

• PRIMARY SOURCES - documents and original artifacts from people who participated in and witnessed an actual event in history.
• SECONDARY SOURCES - are documents, images, texts, and objects that are created by someone who referenced primary sources through analysis, synthesis, interpretation & evaluation
• WHAT IS THE MEANING OF CRAAP TEST?

  currency, relevance, authority, accuracy and purpose
• CURRENCY - when was the information published, posted, or publicized?
• RELEVANCE - Is the information related & connected to your topic?
• AUTHORITY - Who is the author & source of information?
• ACCURACY - from where is the information? is there away of validating the information or verifying it from another source?
• PURPOSE - does the information intend to explain, to inform, to teach, to reinforce an existing belief, to sell an idea, to convince or persuade?