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SGIS S150 Seminar

Research guide for freshman direct admit students to the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies

Why should you evaluate information?

Do you evaluate the information that you use and recommend? How do you decide if a source is credible? What type of information do you pass on to others? Who do you cite in a project or assignment?

Where do you start looking for information? Click here to share.

Why should you evaluate information? Click here to share.

Try out 4 strategies for evaluating information using a) one of your sources from the Information Consumption Worksheet; and b) either this commentary on poverty or this commentary on climate change

Here are the 4 evaluation strategies:

Do these strategies give you any additional ideas about why you should evaluate information? Click here to share.

What have you learned that you can use in the future? Click here to share.

QUESTIONS? Ask them here!