Information Research Skills Tutorials: 2A Getting started (the basics)

Learn how to find, evaluate and properly reference information, working through from a 'getting started' level to advanced techniques

Introduction

Evaluation of information sources is an important aspect of university writing.

By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to:

recognise the importance of evaluating information before using it for your university assignments,
identify some basic criteria to evaluate sources, and
apply these evaluation criteria to common information sources

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