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1 Health Weight Loss: Source Evaluation
By We Don’t Care

2 Source 1: Book Body By Science: A Research Based Program to Get the Results You Want in 12 Minutes a Week Purpose: to teach Publisher: McGraw-Hill professional Publishes textbooks for students in many fields Published in 2009 so it is up to date Authors: Doug McGuff M.D. and John R Little McGuff has written several books and articles on exercise and fitness Little is an author of several bodybuilding and martial arts books and numerous magazine in the subject

3 Book cont. Coverage: Audience: Bibliography: Usefulness:
Covers weight loss and fitness in a comprehensive way Audience: Range from the general public to fitness professionals and students doing research Bibliography: Literature is cited on a chapter basis Usefulness: The book would be useful in a research project Found in the e-book collection on the EBSCO host database

4 Source 2: website www.helpguide.com Got it from the internet
It is a good source Not bias Articles written by PHDs and other professionals Has copyright information Up to date And reviewed by formal publication

5 Website cont. Not for profit
Sole purpose of helping people Has collaborated with organizations such as Harvard. Not really a bibliography but does state authors for each article Good source to use in conjunction with other sources

6 Source 3: Article Weight Loss 101: A Healthy Weight Loss Program for College Students Published in the American Journal of Health Studies Peer Review, Scholarly Journal Published in 2001 might be a little out of date The Material is organized into clear sections Material might be bias

7 Article cont. Does have a comprehensive reference section
Authors have PHDs and are all professors The article covered the topic mostly Good for source evaluation The audience is for Students, specialists in a profession and scholars Illustration such as tables are well organized Might be useful even if it is out of date a bit


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