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Evaluating Quality of Online Sources
Evaluating Quality of Online Sources
This resource will explain why you should evaluate online sources, and a strategy to do so.
What are online sources?
What are online sources?
The term ‘online sources’ refers to any materials you find online. An online source could be a blog post, a newspaper article published online, a journal article you have read online or an online video.
Why should you evaluate online sources?
Why should you evaluate online sources?
The Internet is a valuable source of information, which can be added to or accessed by people across the globe. While this means that we have free access to a diverse range of sources, it also means that the information published may not always be credible or accurate, as anyone could have written it.
When searching for sources to use in your assessments, you may come across materials that seem suitable. However, you should never take an online source, or an offline one, at face value. You should always critically evaluate a source to test its credibility and accuracy before using it an assessment to ensure you are supporting your arguments with correct and credible information.
How can I evaluate online (and offline) sources?
How can I evaluate online (and offline) sources?
A well-known strategy for testing the quality of sources is the CRAAP test. The test focuses on five key aspects that can indicate the quality of a source and includes questions to ask of a source to evaluate its quality.
(Information Source: https://www.uow.edu.au/student/learningcoop/assessments/onlinesources/index.html)
What Do You Think of These Websites?
What Do You Think of These Websites?
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