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- Tutorial 3: Evaluating Sources
Information Literacy Tutorials
These tutorials are designed to introduce researchers to information literacy concepts such as narrowing and broadening research topics and evaluating and selecting appropriate information sources..
Evaluating Sources
This tutorial should take you approximately 20 minutes to complete.
When you are done, you will be able to:
- Understand why evaluation is important
- Determine what type of source you have found
- Determine whether a source is scholarly or peer-reviewed
- Determine whether a source is relevant to your research
- Evaluate sources based on a variety of criteria