CRAAP
Evaluating information
Definitions
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What does the C stand for in CRAAP?

What is Currency?

100

What are some ways that help you read for understanding?

Take notes, Highlight, Note down any questions or connections, Mark important information


100

Logic

a person evaluates arguments and reasoning and strives to distinguish between good and bad reasoning, or between truth and falsehood

200

What does the R stand for in CRAAP?

What is Relevance?

200

Clarify Thinking

Using the logics of what’s happening around you

200

Critical Thinking

reflective thinking focused on deciding what to believe or do.

300

What does the first A stand for in CRAAP?

What is Authority?

300

Cultivate

the way that you approach life problems and how you face them.

300

Creative Thinking

a way to look at things from a new fresh perspective.

400

What does the second A stand for in CRAAP?


What is Accuracy?

400

Examine arguments

Identifying hard facts the author is making

400

Problem solving

finding a solution to a difficult issue

500

What does the P stand for in CRAAP?

What is Purpose?

500

BONUS

Where is the ACC Library?

Building 1000 on the 3rd floor

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CRAAP

a method to help us find a useful resource that we need.

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