Credible Sources October 23rd 2014

A quick read Take 5 minutes to read your handout and answer the following questions. What is your article about? Who is the audience? Is your article a good source of information? Does it state more facts or opinions? Does it say where it gets it’s information from?

Research and Evidence What do you think of our textbook?

First-hand research Research you have conducted yourself Interviews Experiments Surveys Personal experience Anecdotes

Second-hand research Books Periodicals Websites What type of research are you doing for your project?

Our Textbook Who is the author? When was it written? Why was it written? What does your audience (me) think of the book?

Websites to ponder Wikipedia Government of Canada Social blogging websites (Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat etc) The National Post Huffington Post Other online newspapers

Questions to keep in mind Who wrote it? When was it published? Do they cite their sources? Why was it written? (purpose) Is the information from a website or organization you can trust?

AQI Which website do you think is more credible? http://aqicn.org/city/nanchang/ http://www.pm25s.com/en/nanchang.html http://english.nc.gov.cn/

Primary Source Something from that time Autobiographies Letters Diary entries Photographs Public records Poetry News Film footage Speeches

Secondary Source An interpretation of primary sources Textbooks Encyclopedias Databases Literary analyses or critiques

Internet Websites This will be the most common resource for you Where do you find the author information on a website? When was the information last updated? Who is the information intended for? Where do they cite their facts from? Do you trust this website?

Credible Sources What are some rules we can make now, to decide if a resource is good to use or not?