Evaluating Information

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Evaluating Information

• ENG 080

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Evaluating Citations

• Source
• Date
• Length
• Author

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What do you know about the author?

• Where can you locate information about the author?

• Book Covers on the back or inside

• Book reviews

• Contemporary Authors, etc.

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Looking at the document

• Does it have an index or table of contents?

• Does it have a bibliography?
• What are the dates of the citations?
• Who published the references?

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Fact vs. Opinion

• FACT
• -An actual occurrence
• -Government Statistics

• OPINION
• -Judgment
• -Uses emotional appeal

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Recognizing Bias

• Bias - a personal and sometimes unreasoned
  judgment (opinion)
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