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Evaluating your sources

Evaluating your sources

How to evaluate a source based on: Currency, Accuracy/Reliability, Authority and Purpose/Point of View
 

This site has links to some different worksheets with the criteria to help you evaluate a source. The links are in the column on the left with this heading: Resource and Web Site Evaluation.

 

You can also find a printable version of a Website Evaluation Checklist in the NMHS Writing Handbook

 

Another printable, one-page sheet: https://libraries.mercer.edu/research-tools-help/citation-tools-help/images/PrintableCRAPtest.pdf 

 

Champlain College has this page, which includes links to some really detailed information on evaluating your sources. http://www.champlain.edu/academics/library/get-help/research-how-tos/evaluating-sources