Research

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RESEARCH

• Evaluating Sources

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DEFINITION

• Systematic investigation
• Establish facts
• Purpose
• Discover
• Document
• Develop and
• Interpret

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CONDUCTING RESEARCH

• Identification of research subject
• Literature review
• Specifying the purpose of research
• Data collection
• Analyzing and interpreting the data
• Reporting and evaluating research

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SOURCES

• Blogs and online articles
• Online news sources, journals and magazines
• In case of technical or academic articles URLs
  - .edu , .gov , .org

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CARS Checklist

• Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonableness, Support
• Clues/Indicators
• Credibility
• Evidence of quality
• Indicators for lack of credibility like bad
  grammar

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Visual cues- reliable source
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Unreliable source
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• 2. Accuracy
• Comprehensiveness
• Timelines
• Purpose and audience
• Indicators of lack of credibility and accuracy
  like no date, or conclusion.

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• 3. Reasonableness
• Fairness and balance
• Objectivity
• Moderateness
• Consistency
• Worldview
• Indicators of lack of reasonableness

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• 4.Support
• Conformability
• Indicators of lack of support like absence of
  sources, numbers without support, no other
  sources with the same information

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EVALUATING SOURCES - Summary

• Screening sources
• Identify topic
• Reliable Sources
• Visual cues
• Cross check data
• Look for related articles

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Sources

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research
• http//www.mhhe.com/socscience/english/allwrite3/s
  eyler/ssite/seyler/se03/cars.mhtml
• http//www.yorku.ca/webclass/yquiz/webresearchtest
  /quiz/webresearchtest.quiz
• http//www-old.pgcc.edu/library/tutorial/webquiz.h
  tm
• http//www.clark.edu/Library/iris/quiz/quiz_home.p
  hp

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