Special thanks to Jessica Tipton from the JCCC Library who compiled support matrial below and shared it with me when I told her of my desire to do a better job teaching students how to evaluate sources.
- ProQuest Research Companion
- Library Tutorials Guide
- Real News vs. Fake News – a library research guide from Pace University
She also suggested I have students review the credibility of each source and answer a few questions about it, and have students create an annotated bibliography to turn in before they write ther papers which include information about:
- How they will use their source
- Currency of the source
- Credibility of the author
- References – what sources did the author use to write the article
- Bias if there is any
She also provided this worksheet as a discussion guide – https://www.csuchico.edu/lins/handouts/eval_websites.pdf, and warned me that even articles from the library can be incorrect or biased so students should get in the habit of investigating every source they use.
