Library Research Skills: Evaluating Articles: Welcome

Disclaimers:  

If your professor is requiring you to take Library Research Skills Workshops, or giving extra credit, this LibGuide does not replace a Library Skills Research Workshop, and your professor will not be notified.  You must attend an actual workshop to meet your professor's expectations.

If your professor has included a module in your Canvas classroom on this topic, this LibGuide does not replace that module.  You will need to complete the module in Canvas, as it has a quiz at the end, which this LibGuide does not.  

This LibGuide will help you understand how to evaluate articles from newspapers, magazine, and journals. Specifically, you should meet the following objectives:

1. Understand why we need to evaluate information and sources, such as articles from academic journals, magazines, and newspapers, before using the information in academic research or our everyday lives.
2. Utilize an evaluation tool that works like a grading rubric and can help you remember 5 areas to evaluate a source.
3. Understand each of the 5 areas to evaluate and where to find the information that will help you make that evaluation.
4. Comprehend the evaluation process in context with an example evaluation of an article.