Once you find books, articles, essays, web pages or other documents on a research topic, it is very important to evaluate those sources of information to try to develop a general understanding of the purpose, value, perspective and quality of any source you use in your research.

How to Evaluate Any Source

Evaluating Web Pages

Evaluating Articles

Evaluating Wikipedia

Popular Magazines vs Scholarly Journals

Political Perspectives of Magazines and Journals

Finding Information About Authors

Finding Evaluations of Books from Book Reviews

Annotated Bibliographies

Content Farms

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Use the tabs (above) to search for BooksArticles Films & Plays, and Web Resources.  If you have any questions, please contact a Skyline College Librarian.