Strategies for Gathering and Evaluating Sources

Associate Level Material

Appendix E

Strategies for Gathering and Evaluating Sources

Evaluate three sources for your final project by filling in the information below. Your responses here will provide the information you need to complete the annotated bibliography for your Week Three assignment.

Source 1

|Source Information |

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|KidsHealth from Nemours. How TV affects your Child. |

|http://kidshealth.org/parent/positive/family/tv_affects_child.html# |

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

|Is the author affiliated with an organization related to the subject |The author is affiliated with an organization related to the subject |

|of the article? (Does he or she have an ulterior motive?) |of the article and my research. |

|What is the author’s experience with the subject, including related |The articles and other content on site go through rigorous medical |

|academic or professional credentials? (Is he or she qualified to |reviews by pediatricians and other medical experts. |

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

|Does this article report on information experienced by the author, or|It is not an article that the author has experienced. It is topics on |

|is it a summary or retelling of information from other sources? (How |health issues...