Evaluating your sources
Before deciding whether or not to incorporate what you have found into your literature review, you need to evaluate the resources to make sure that they contain information which is valuable and pertinent. This is especially true when the resources you retrieved are not collected by an academic library, but conveniently accessible through Internet search. Web resources needmore careful thought to ensure their quality. Thus it is always a good practice to begin your search using CityU LibraryFind and databases for more authoritative and reliable resources.
Evaluation Criteria
Accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency and coverage are the five basic criteria for evaluating information from any sources.
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See Also
Criterion-referenced assessment