+1 862 207 3288 This assignment provides you with practice evaluating information on your topic to determine whether you should use the specific sources you’ve found in a college level paper and to get you thinking about how you might use them in your upcoming research project.
Step 1: Include your research question at the top of the page.
Step 2: Create correctly formatted (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.) citations for 3 sources focusing on your topic that you have already used in the research process or that you plan to use in your final project:
book/book chapter
popular article
scholarly peer reviewed journal article.
Step 3: Immediately after each citation, summarize, assess, and reflect upon the source. Devote a separate paragraph to each of these activities; that is, each citation should be followed by three paragraphs. Do NOT quote from your sources but rather put any information you glean from them in your own words. Also remember that copying an abstract from a database is plagiarism.
Summarize: The summary section of your evaluation of the source identifies the author’s main argument, followed by a brief discussion of some of the main points the author makes in support of the thesis. Review the examples on the following page for info on how to start your summaries effectively by introducing the author, article title, and thesis of the text: http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Write-a-Summary-Analysis-and-Response-Essay
Assess: After summarizing the source, evaluate the source’s usefulness in terms of categories like currency, relevance, authority, accuracy, and purpose, asking questions such as:
Is the information in this source out of date? Would more current information provide stronger evidence to support my points?
What are the author’s qualifications to write on this topic?
Is this an appropriate source type to use in a college level paper?
Does the publisher of this information have a good reputation?
Was this a good source to use to learn about my topic (in the background research phrase of the process) but not such a good source to actually cite in my paper? Should I track down original research rather than relying on this summary or discussion of the research?
Does the source use strong evidence/a sound method to support its claims/prove its point? Does it engage with other studies and cite its sources?
Reflect: Finally, reflect on how the source fits into your research. Explain, for example, what you learned from the source that you didn’t know before (this could be factual information, but it also could be learning about a new perspective on an issue). How might you use this source in a paper? Does it contain arguments and evidence that you could discuss to support your own point of view, or does it contain counter arguments that you would need to address/refute?
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