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 Evaluating the information you choose to use for your assignments, essays, and presentations is an important step in the research process. Not all of the information you find will be appropriate to your research question, so you have to decide what to include and what not to include. Focusing your research in library and academic sources will help a lot.
Keep these criteria in mind whenever you use a book, journal article, or other format of information:
* Currency: is the information up-to-date?
* Relevance: is the information important for your need?
* Authority: Who is the source of the information? Is the author(s) qualified?
* Purpose: Why does the information exist? Is it to educate or is it biased and intended to persuade?
| When you use quality information for your research, you write a better paper and give a better presentation. You gain credibility because your research is built upon the strong foundation of others' high quality research. |
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