So you've found some useful information, but how do you know if it's credible? And can you use it for your assignments? This workshop will cover 3 different ways to think about evaluating sources of information. Then, we'll look at how these strategies can be combined to address issues which commonly arise in the types of sources students regularly encounter, especially academic sources and generative AI.
Learning objectives: In this workshop participants will:
- Evaluate a source of information to determine whether it is valid and credible
- Recognize the characteristics that give writers and information authority
- Recognize different way values and ideologies are embedded in information sources
- Understand the research and writing expectations and practices in your subject area
- Recognize how culture and ideology affect the production of scholarship and privilege some voices over others
- Recognize how research, writing, and publishing practices have the potential to enrich or limit information contained in a source
Presenter(s): Janice Winkler, Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Librarian, Caroline Monnin, Health Sciences Librarian
About this workshop series: This workshop is part of the Library Essentials workshop series. Register for at least 3 Library Essentials Workshops and 2 additional library workshops to receive credit on your Experience Record (Co-Curricular Record). To learn more about the Library Essentials series, visit our website.
