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Strategies for Gathering and Evaluating Sources

Evaluate three sources for your final project by completing this worksheet. Your responses provide the information you need to complete the annotated bibliography for your Week Three assignment.

Source 1

|Source Information |

|"Media Effects and Society" by Elizabeth M. Perse |

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|Questions to Consider |Answers (one sentence each should suffice) |

|Is the author affiliated with an organization related to the subject |I could not find any affiliation with this author to any organization |

|of the article? (Does he or she have an ulterior motive?) |to the subject of the article. I do not believe the author has any |

| |ulterior motives. |

|What is the author’s experience with the subject, including related |The author teaches communication at the University of Delaware. She |

|academic or professional credentials? (Is he or she qualified to |has 40 publications, 997 citations, and has been cited by 1,053 |

|interpret and explain the complexities of the subject?) |authors. |

|Does this article report on information experienced by the author, or|Her purpose is to promote understanding of the process of media |

|is it a summary or retelling of information from other sources? (How |effects and to encourage research....