How to evaluate credibility
- Author's credentials
- Where did the author come from? Do they have a degree of some kind? What is it? What's their expertise?
- Watch out for ads
- Super irritating
- Also have a commercial purpose
- Track record of the website
- What types of articles have they written in the past? What's the trend? Higher levels of suspicion are warranted...
- How it uses citations
- Definitely a way to fact check the site
- Checking for reviews and revisions
- Crucial for checking on currency in information
- Distinguish between scholarly and popular sourcesReview the criteria that enables you to determine whether or not a resource is "scholarly" and thus suitable for citing in an academic research paper.
What is peer review anyway?
Hierarchy of Journal Publications
