You must know what the point of view is and why that point of view is important to your project.

Analyzing what different sources say about a topic is one way to determine exaggerations, omissions, and errors.

Determining when an item of information was published or produced is an aspect of evaluating information.

Avoiding conspiracy theories and fake news is essential for conducting credible research.

Unfortunately, these sites have no control system for researching, writing, and reviewing articles.

check to see when the site was last updated.

Bias can lead an author to present facts selectively, edit quotations to misrepresent someone’s words, and distort information.

To determine the trustworthiness and credibility of a source, you want to ensure that a source is current, written by an expert, accurate, and unbiased.

Your task as a researcher is to determine the appropriateness of the information your source contains for your particular research project

In most cases, you won't have enough data to generalize, so you can simply bring in your observations as an additional source of information that supports other work that has already been able to make a general point about your topic.

It is easy for writers to get so caught up in checking out books and printing out/bookmarking articles that they forget to ask themselves how they will use these resources in their research

Think of synonyms for your key words and try searching for those

Start off with key words that are fairly specific. For instance, rather than “global warming,” you might use “temperature trends” or “sea level rise.”

Limit results to a particular domain type, such as .edu (school and university sites) or .gov (government sites). This is a quick way to filter out commercial sites, which can often lead to more objective results

The first few hits that appear in search results may include sites whose content is not always reliable

When faced with the challenge of writing a research paper, some students rely on popular search engines as their first source of information

Writers use strategies to help them find the sources that are most relevant and reliable while steering clear of sources that will not be useful.

Tertiary sources are those sources that have already been interpreted by two people

Journal and some magazine articles Some newspaper articles Biographical books Television documentaries Websites that at interpret data gathered by themselves or others

research papers, research-based books, and some newspaper articles

Data (from data gathering websites, such as the Census Bureau), Interviews, Diaries and letters, and Other historical documents Websites of government agencies and organizations that collect data.

What documents/ genres are used?

Who’s your audience?

influential in changing the direction or tone of the conversation by looking at it from a new angle or focusing on a different aspect

the conversation never truly ends

expected to engage with, and join, the conversations about myriad topics