Activities: Evaluating Information

Practice applying evaluation criteria to different types of sources.

  • Choose one of the strategies covered in this module (ACT UP or SIFT) and use it to evaluate a source you found for your research. [Don’t have a source handy? Use this one Links to an external site. or this one Links to an external site.!]  Which evaluation criteria are most useful to you?  Imagine you’re finding sources for a short research paper. Based on your evaluation would you use the source as a cited reference? Why or why not? 

Congratulations! You’ve finished the Evaluating Information module. Check it off the Tutorial Action Plan!