3.1 Evaluating Sources

Today’s lesson will be about:

Attendance

Objectives

You will be able to:

• Identify criteria for determining source reliability.
• Complete the checklist to explain why a website is reliable or unreliable.
• Add source evaluation to your annotation.

Warm-up
Discussion Questions

Evaluating Sources

Website reliability

http://www.dhmo.org/

http://www.indiana.edu/~hlw/Introduction/why.html

Reliability Checklist

Reliability of books, journal articles, newspaper articles

Understanding of library database sources

Pre Research Portfolio submit!

Take a look at the rubric on the course webpage. 

Complete the rest of Pre Research Portfolio. Don't forget to review all explanations that you wrote and try to improve them. 

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* "--" means that your explanations seem okay and understandable. It DOES NOT mean you are DONE! As you can see on the rubric, your explanations need to be clear and provided with enough examples or in detail. So, even though you got "--" from me, I recommend you to look back three charts again, and revise grammar or add more explanations as possible as you can. 

*For Chart2, there are some yes/no questions. For the final version of portfolio, you need to mention why you say yes or no. One sentence is enough for the reason. Here is an example: 

Q. Are the solutions supported by sufficient evidence? 

A. Yes, I could find some researches, such as Preventing Childhood Obesity in Early Care and Education Programs from American Public Health Association. 

*Descriptions for solutions in Chart3 should be more specific than the solutions in Chart1. In Chart3, you need to provide detailed information about solutions. Assume yourself that you introduce the solution for the readers who never think about your topic. 

For Chart1, one example for solutions is enough. However, for Chart3, you might describe how the action-based solutions were carried out in communities or in a country, or with what procedures the laws are legislated, by whom, who supported the laws, and so on. Also, you might mention the title of researches and authors' names. 

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*Name the file, 2.0 Pre Research Portfolio.
*Submit the file on Dropbox>>>Unit2. Pre Research Paper. 

*Due date and time: Oct, 18 (Fri) 11:55 pm sharp.