6: Evaluating & Citing

If you've already completed this section, please skip ahead to:

• Evaluate your book
• Evaluate your article
• Evaluate your website

• Better sources will lead to better grades, better papers, and better learning
• Your professor is going to review your sources so you should too
• The better your sources the better your work looks

How to evaluate:

Depends on:

• type of source you're looking at
• where it came from
• what you're using it for

Think about each source critically - find the strengths and weaknesses of each source.

You can evaluate your sources by applying these Criteria.