This
tutorial will teach you how to critically evaluate information,
and outline clues for evaluating books, articles and web sites
based on an information need. After completing this tutorial,
you will 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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