{"id":707,"date":"2017-11-21T15:42:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T15:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-ecc-collegecomposition\/chapter\/assessment-investigating-your-source\/"},"modified":"2017-11-21T15:42:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T15:42:23","slug":"assessment-investigating-your-source","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-ecc-collegecomposition\/chapter\/assessment-investigating-your-source\/","title":{"raw":"Assessment: Investigating Your Source","rendered":"Assessment: Investigating Your Source"},"content":{"raw":"

For the source you've chosen\u2014and it can be anything<\/strong> that relates to your final research essay topic\u2014complete the following questionnaire.\u00a0 It's important to note that not all of these answers may prove helpful to actually drafting the Evaluation Essay.<\/em>\u00a0 Instead, you're brainstorming possible content for that essay, and then picking what seems to be the most important features about your source from this initial exploration.\n<\/p>

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Source Evaluation Questionnaire<\/h2>\nTitle of Source:\n\nHow you found it:\n
  1. Who wrote\/presented this information?\u00a0 (If not an individual, who is responsible for publishing it?)\u00a0 Do a websearch on this individual or group.\u00a0 What do you learn?<\/li>\n \t
  2. Where was this source published or made available?\u00a0 What other types of articles, etc., does this publication have on offer?<\/li>\n \t
  3. Note one particular fact or bit of data that is included, here.\u00a0 Try to verify this fact by checking other sources.\u00a0 What do you learn?<\/li>\n \t
  4. Does the author seem to have any bias?\u00a0 In what way?\u00a0 Why do you suspect this? (Review\u00a0the Understanding Bias page\u00a0<\/a>to help.)<\/li>\n \t
  5. Does the source publication have any bias?\u00a0 In what way?\u00a0 Why do you suspect this?<\/li>\n \t
  6. What is this source\u2019s thesis or prevailing idea?<\/li>\n \t
  7. How does this source promote this main idea?\u00a0 In other words, how does it support its argument?<\/li>\n \t
  8. What does this source\u2019s primary audience seem to be?\u00a0 How do you know?<\/li>\n \t
  9. What is its primary rhetorical mode (logic, emotion, ethics)?<\/li>\n \t
  10. Does this source support, oppose, or remain neutral on your own paper\u2019s thesis?<\/li>\n<\/ol>","rendered":"

    For the source you’ve chosen\u2014and it can be anything<\/strong> that relates to your final research essay topic\u2014complete the following questionnaire.\u00a0 It’s important to note that not all of these answers may prove helpful to actually drafting the Evaluation Essay.<\/em>\u00a0 Instead, you’re brainstorming possible content for that essay, and then picking what seems to be the most important features about your source from this initial exploration.\n<\/p>\n

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    Source Evaluation Questionnaire<\/h2>\n

    Title of Source:<\/p>\n

    How you found it:<\/p>\n

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    1. Who wrote\/presented this information?\u00a0 (If not an individual, who is responsible for publishing it?)\u00a0 Do a websearch on this individual or group.\u00a0 What do you learn?<\/li>\n
    2. Where was this source published or made available?\u00a0 What other types of articles, etc., does this publication have on offer?<\/li>\n
    3. Note one particular fact or bit of data that is included, here.\u00a0 Try to verify this fact by checking other sources.\u00a0 What do you learn?<\/li>\n
    4. Does the author seem to have any bias?\u00a0 In what way?\u00a0 Why do you suspect this? (Review\u00a0the Understanding Bias page\u00a0<\/a>to help.)<\/li>\n
    5. Does the source publication have any bias?\u00a0 In what way?\u00a0 Why do you suspect this?<\/li>\n
    6. What is this source\u2019s thesis or prevailing idea?<\/li>\n
    7. How does this source promote this main idea?\u00a0 In other words, how does it support its argument?<\/li>\n
    8. What does this source\u2019s primary audience seem to be?\u00a0 How do you know?<\/li>\n
    9. What is its primary rhetorical mode (logic, emotion, ethics)?<\/li>\n
    10. Does this source support, oppose, or remain neutral on your own paper\u2019s thesis?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t
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