Familiarize yourself with scholarly literature:
Assignment: Browse through several articles in journals that are used in the discipline of your EE. List articles that are relevant to a topic of your EE or in the discipline of your EE. Choose an article, state the thesis, and describe the sources the author used for evidence to support the thesis. Are those sources available to you? Purpose: Familiarize yourself with questions, issues, and methodologies central to your discipline. Learn to evaluate sources used as evidence in scholarly articles. Finding and Evaluating Information: Assignment: As you search for books, articles, and other sources of information, record the databases you use as well as the specific keyword searches and subject headings they use. Explain why some searches worked better than others and what led you to alter your search strategy. Evaluate the credibility of a few of the sources, the accuracy of its information, the reasonableness of its presentation, and its support. Credibility - credentials of the author/authors, their expertise on the topic. Accuracy - information is up-to-date, detailed, lacking in bias Reasonableness - multiple perspectives are considered, information is presented objectively Support - other sources corroborate the information present and the source documents its own sources appropriately Purpose: Become proficient at locating sources of information by efficiently searching scholarly tools. Learn to evaluate the usefulness and appropriateness of a source in a research paper. Comments are closed.
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AuthorMr. Lynch has been teaching at CHS for his entire 6 year teaching career. He has taught EL, World History, Econ, AP Human Geography, IB History, and IB Internship over the course of his career. Archives
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