Day 25: Source Reliability

Today You Will Learn How to:

• Locate information about a source that helps determine its credibility and reliability (e.g. publisher, date, author, kind of journal) 
• Categorize sources along a spectrum of credibility (not credible, credible/not academic, scholarly/academic/peer-reviewed) 
• Concisely explain source reliability in a few written sentences 

Class Today
Introduce Unit 3- Quiz :D

Warm-Up
Look at these three websites, what do you think of the reliability of each? Would you use the website for your own research? Discuss with your row.

http://www.dhmo.org 

http://www.gatt.org/

http://www.lingweenie.net/feorran/feorran.html

Powerpoint
Follow along as we discuss this powerpoint.

Group Practice
Use the reliability checklist, here, to evaluate these websites:

http://webtrends.about.com/od/socialnetworking/a/social-network.htm

http://www.indiana.edu/~hlw/Introduction/why.html

http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/28511/facebook-to-charge/

Next Class: Source Relevancy

Homework:
1. A completed version of the Pre-Research portfolio is due Monday 3/30 by midnight. Remember this is worth 15% of your grade. Submit it to Compass2g.
2. You should finish the Writer's Help exercises by Friday. Bring the handout I gave you earlier to class.