1. Credible Sources
October 23rd 2014

2. 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?

3. Research and Evidence
What do you think of our textbook?

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. AQI Which website do you think is more credible?

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

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

12. 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?

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