We have already discussed evaluation for Internet sources. Evaluation for academic sources is the process where you decide which sources you want to use and if they are right for your topic and assignment. We will also discuss annotation requirements this week.
In this class, you will learn how to:
What is required this week:
This week's video covers evaluation for academic sources and how to narrow down your fifteen sources to your final six.
The scholarly article I mentioned about Roman hairstyles (and the hairdresser who cracked the code) is available here. And here is a popular source discussing the same story.
And, as always, prefer to read? This document contains the script for the video.
These handouts give you guidance on how to evaluate both scholarly and popular sources.
For this lesson, focus on the sections about academic sources. Compare this to last time's lesson on popular sources. How are the evaluation techniques different? How are they the same?
You can also view this handout as a flow-chart (same information, but in a fun flow-chart form. Choice is yours, but be sure to read one of them):
Much like last week with popular sources, it is one thing to talk about evaluation, it's another thing to show you. In this video, I narrate how I would evaluate academic sources for a project and then how I would narrow down those sources.
And again, much like last time, in order to explain the process to you, I slow things down a bit, but in real life, sometimes evaluation takes as little as a few seconds.