Day 25 (Oct 22) - Source Reliability

Today we will...

1. learn how to locate information about a source that helps determine its credibility and reliability
2. categorize sources along a spectrum of credibility (not credible/credible, not academic/scholarly, academic, peer-reviewed)

Introduction to Website Reliability

When we write our research papers, we may inevitably use some website sources. How do we know if the website source we use is reliable or not?

Here are 2 websites. Work with your partners and check all three of them, then decide whether the 2 websites are good sources to use in your research paper.
1. Website One
2. Website Two

Which one do you think is reliable? Which one is not?

How do we know? Here are some guidelines that we can use to make a good judgment.

Let's Practice

Here is a Website Reliability Checklist. Please use this checklist to examine if the three websites you just browsed are reliable.

Source Reliability and the Annotated Bibliography

We have already learned something in the Library Day. Do you still remember what are the criteria to judge whether a source is reliable or not?

Annotated Bibliography Practice

Read this Sample Annotated Bibliography, and answer the questions.

Homework

Keep working on your pre-research portfolio. Make sure that the organization you found is reliable.