English Composition › Section N · The annotated bibliography › Topic N.1
Compiling and evaluating sources
With a library and the internet to hand, you will never run short of sources; the challenge is deciding which ones deserve your readers' trust. Evaluating sources well means asking who made them, for what purpose, and what other sources say about them.
In this topic
- Compile widely, then judge
- A hierarchy of authority
- Peer review and the academic article
- Value depends on purpose
- The CRAAP test
- Worked example: ranking sources for one question
- Bias, agendas and domains
- Lateral reading and SIFT
- Worked example: SIFT on a polished website
- Working smarter with good sources
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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