Good Sources
A kind of source that gives you first-hand evidence and direct access to your research topic.
What is a primary source?
YouTube can be used for this purpose during research.
What is a broad overview?
Research topics should be phrased as this, rather than statements.
What are questions?
Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
What is bias?
Personal blogs and YouTube might not be good sources because of this.
What is no credentials?
An example of this kind of source would be books, blog posts, and journal articles.
What is a secondary source?
These can be an instant indicator that a website is not trustworthy.
What are lots of ads, spelling errors, and weird fonts and colors?
You need to have this in mind when doing research.
What is a clear focus?
When content is created to sell a product, service, or brand.
What is commercial bias?
News sites should be this kind of source.
What is one of many?
URLs that are generally trustworthy.
What is .edu, .org, and .gov?
Often inaccurate, taken out of context, and not relevant to what you’re actually saying.
What are online quotes?
Making research questions this keeps you open minded.
What is objective?
When important information is not included.
What is omission?
This is something you should do as you read an article to test your understanding.
What is summarize as you go?
This test can help you determine the legitimacy of a source and uses things like currency, authority, and purpose.
What is the CRAAP test?
The National Enquirer, the Star, and the Globe are three good examples of these.
You will get better results when Googling by using these.
What are key words?
Not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.
What is objective?
Bias can be present in this.
What is everything?
Information that is considered up-to-date.
What is information published in the last 10 years?
A headline being this often means the article is untrustworthy.
What is overly sensational or hard to believe?
Wikipedia is not a good source because of this reason.
What is too broad?
Visual bias uses this.
What is images or video to shape how we feel about a topic?
The six main kinds of bias.
What is commercial, visual, sensationalism, framing, expediency, and omission.