Speech 1 Honors - Carter - Speech Research Guide - Research Guides at Pasadena City College

In-Class Exercise

"Would You Use That Source?"

Look closely at a source before you decide to cite it in your own research.

In this exercise, your group will look at a source on the topic of climate change.

Your group gets to decide:

Use It?

...or...

Lose it?

Before you use a website -- or any source -- for an assignment, consider:

There are many variations on this technique -- here are links to a few of them.

The ABCD of Website Evaluation
When evaluating a web site, see if you can identify the authority, bias, currency and documentation of the site. You can also see this explained in a video. From Oklahoma City Community College.
P.R.O.V.E.N. Source Evaluation
This technique checks for purpose, relevance, objectivity, verifiability, expertise and newness. From Santa Barbara City College.
CRAAP Test
The CRAAP Test looks at currency, relevancy, authority, accuracy, and the purpose of websites. It is a list of questions to help you evaluate information you find on the web. From CSU Chico.

Group #1: Time for a Sensible Sense of Congress Resolution on Climate Change

Group #2: Corporate Responsibility: Climate Change

Group #3: What Do People Know About Global Climate Change? 1. Mental Models

Group #4: Climate Change: How do we Know?

Group #5: Does it matter if people think climate change is human caused?

Group #6: 9 Ways We Know Humans Triggered Climate Change