The fifth chapter of The Bedford Researcher, which is titled Evaluating Sources, is split into two halves. The first half goes into extreme detail about what to do to evaluate an article from a peer reviewed journal. This section begins with making sure that the relevance of the source, it’s helpfulness to the audience and yourself, and then goes into many other details to check about the source to make sure that any and all information that is in the source will be helpful, such as who the author is, who the publisher is, when the article was written, what genre the source was written in, how comprehensive the source is , and the amount of evidence provided in the source.
The second half of this chapter focuses on other kinds of sources that are not written for a peer reviewed journal. This section begins with telling the reader that checking the relevance and credibility of digital sources is key, especially when the information you are getting is off of a blog or social networking site. especially in those cases, checking who the author is will show whether the information in the post will be helpful to you or not. This section ends on talking about checking the relevance and accuracy of any field sources, such as interviews and surveys, to make sure that they can be used in your project.
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