WRI 1100: Douglass

search Google news items about your animal of interest. Be sure to include scientist, researcher, or Dr. as part of your search to return results that name specific scientists.

Science Section of the New York Times

find additional science blogs by searching Science Seeker

This book describes an source evaluation method that is more like what news fact checkers use. This process may feel more natural and quicker than traditional library source evaluation tools, it also works partiuclarly well for evaluating social media, popular, and popular science sources.

1. Investigate the source
- "Check for previous work" Make use of existing fact checking sources like Snopes, FactCheck.org, etc. for news, or, for scholarly research, check for additional background information in encyclopedias, books, or journal articles.
- "Go upstream" find the original source by using references (or a google search) to link back to the primary source.
- "Read laterally" by searching for what other sources have to say about the same topic
- Circle back, using what you have learned, take a more informed path through the fact checking process
2. Trade up to more credible sources
- Circle back to a previous stage of the fact checking process

more detail than the above description on checking information like a fact-checker

another framework for evaluating sources & use of the BEAM Model for evaluating how a source might be used in your paper.

framework for critically evaluating a resource.

framework for critically evaluating a resource