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Evaluating Information tutorial
Why Evaluate Information?
Audience
Scope & Coverage
Timeliness
Authority
Accuracy
Objectivity & Bias
Using and Evaluating Web Information
Evaluation Checklists
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What You Have Learned
WAY TO GO!!!

This tutorial provided information to help you evaluate information no matter what the source! You should now be able to:

  • Understand why it's important to evaluate information
  • Identify and apply basic criteria for evaluating information
  • Distinguish between popular and scholarly articles
  • Differentiate between database search results and results from a Web search engine
  • Recognize the parts of a web address and a citation

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