Wednesday, 22 March 2017

LO3: Evaluating research techniques

  • evaluating sources and information
  • reliability (eye-witnesses? authority figure? experts? primary/secondary researches?)
  • relevance  (Worthiness)
  • accuracy (truthfulness/ Cross reference sources)
  • validity (is the information valid to the topic?)
  • accessibility- (how accessible is the information needed)
  • quality- (how good is the information gained? will it help write about a topic?)
  • cost effective

Booleans- use specific characters to narrow down a search ( '+'  '-')

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