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You've found evidence, but how do you know whether it is the right evidence to use in your assignment?
Finding evidence for your assignments
We get information from lots of different sources. Whether that is from social media such as YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TicToc; traditional media sources such as television, newspapers or radio; or from the internet, from user-generated content to material created by organisations.
But how much of this is evidence you would include in university assignments? For academic work, you must use RELIABLE evidence.
This guide will help evaluate evidence, to check whether it is reliable.
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What is reliable evidence?
In this information age, with so much evidence around us, RELIABLE evidence can be tricky to find.
There are some methods you can use, such as the CRAAP test or the SIFT method to evaluate the reliability of evidence.
You can find out more about these methods in this video, and below.
CRAAP test
Currency: When was the information published (or when was the website updated)?
Relevance: Does the evidence relate to your topic?
Authority: Who is the author or the source of the evidence? E.g. for a website .ac.uk is educational, .gov.uk is government).
Accuracy: Has the evidence been peer-reviewed?
Purpose: What is the purpose of the evidence? To inform, or to persuade or to enterain?
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SIFT method
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Trace claims and quotes to the original context
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