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Information Literacy Program Module 4 Critically Evaluating Information Sources

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Information Literacy Program Module 4 Critically Evaluating Information Sources

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    1. 1 Information Literacy Program Module 4 Critically Evaluating Information Sources

    2. 2 Other ILP Modules Module 1: Resources available @ the Emalus Campus Library Module 2: Accessing the Library Website & Using the Online Catalogue Module 3: Untangle the Web: Finding Information on the Internet ?Module 4: Critically Evaluating Information Sources Module 5: Literature Search, Citing Sources & the Bibliography Module 6: Searching ProQuest

    3. 3 to provide students with a set of criteria for evaluating information sources Learning Objective

    4. 4 At the end of this session, students should be able to: understand the four criteria for evaluating information sources apply these four criteria when evaluating information sources Learning Outcomes

    5. 5 every source of information incorporates the perspective or bias of its authors instead of automatically accepting information at face value, you should always critically evaluate information obtained from any source Why Evaluate Information

    6. 6 Criteria to Evaluate Information CARS is an acronym to help you remember the five categories for evaluating information sources: Credibility Accuracy Reasonableness Support Jowitt, Anita (2006) Legal Referencing. University of the South Pacific School of Law. http://law.usp.ac.fj/edison/resources/referencing.pdf

    7. 7 Credibility

    8. 8 What purpose has it been written for? Is the information sufficiently current for your purpose? Does it cover the right time period? Does it cover the right geographic area? Does the information appear to be complete Is the information still accurate regardless of the date? Accuracy

    9. 9 Reasonableness

    10. 10 Support

    11. 11 Look at the URL Scan the top and bottom of the page to find author, organization, date last updated Look for indicators of quality Sources documented Bias Links to additional resources What do others say? Evaluating Websites

    12. 12 Evaluating Websites

    13. 13 unauthorised changes updates: this problem especially applies to conference / working papers online – what you see today may not be what you access tomorrow Information Online is vulnerable to:

    14. 14 Final Advice on Evaluating Information

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