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  • Why should we evaluate the sources we use for our research?
  • How do we evaluate the sources we use for our research? What is C.R.A.A.P. test?

    • ]]>     2021-11-11 12:51:29 UTC https://padlet.com/usictech/11h83n9s09h43vsj/wish/1884067007     Group 3 jgeng6 https://padlet.com/usictech/11h83n9s09h43vsj/wish/1884084704 1.The information can be overwhelming. You cannot believe everything you read and you need to think critically about the information before you choose to use it.  
    Make sure you're choosing the best resources to get the job done.

    2. How: Checking authority, links to universities, governments and investigative institutions, and peer review.Check that the resource used has a bibliography. The list of questions to help you decide whether or not the information you find is credible and appropriate to use.

    CRAAP: Currency, relevance, accuracy,authority and purpose.
    ]]>     2021-11-11 12:59:48 UTC https://padlet.com/usictech/11h83n9s09h43vsj/wish/1884084704     group 1 https://padlet.com/usictech/11h83n9s09h43vsj/wish/1884085048 1. you can't believe everything you read, you need critically about the information before you choose to use it.

    2. currency(find whether the book is publish is new or in the recent years), relevance(help for the essay, let us realise more about the question and find better answer) ,authority(Whether the author is in this area of expertise）, accuracy（to confirm whether the aricle is suitable for the essay), purpose(to discover what the article writer want to express).]]>     2021-11-11 12:59:58 UTC https://padlet.com/usictech/11h83n9s09h43vsj/wish/1884085048     Group 2 jwang338 https://padlet.com/usictech/11h83n9s09h43vsj/wish/1884087823 1. To find whether the information is credible or appropriate to use.
    2. Using C.R.A.A.P. test, by identifying currency, relevance, authority, accuracy and purpose this five factors does effects on your research, and it should be refer to the situation of why you need your sources.]]>     2021-11-11 13:01:23 UTC https://padlet.com/usictech/11h83n9s09h43vsj/wish/1884087823     group 4 https://padlet.com/usictech/11h83n9s09h43vsj/wish/1884089741 1: Determine the information's reliability.

    Not all sources have accurate information
    (not everything you read will be balanced, objected, and you might need a range of opinions to answer people question)

    We need to think critically about the information before we use to see if the sources is useful and suitable for our research

    2: CRAAP test is a list of questions to help us decide whether or not the information we find is credible and appropriate to use

    Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy and Purpose.

    Currency: if the published data is recent( normally 10 years)

    Relevance: see subheadings and headings , skimming the information 

    Authority: to see their academic performance and professional levels 

    Accuracy: to see if the sources have been peer reviewed or not, bias 

    purpose: to see the purpose of the author to prove if the source is trustworthy 




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