Step 1: Keep in mind your purpose, your audience, and your evidence
Step 2: Ask the following questions about each source
- Is the source relevant?
- What are the author’s credentials?
- What is the stance or perspective?
- Who is the publisher?
- Who is the sponsor (for a website)?
- At what level is it written?
- How current is it?
- Is it cited in other works?
- Is it available?
- Does it include a bibliography?
--The Little Seagull Handbook, 102-105
