EVALUATING SOURCES FOR RELEVANCE AND RELIABILITY

5.4 EVALUATING SOURCES FOR RELEVANCEAND RELIABILITYWhen you start looking for sources, you’ll find more than you can use, soyou must quickly evaluate their usefulness. To do so use two criteria:relevance and reliability.5.4.1 Evaluating Sources for RelevanceIf your source is a book, do this:• Skim its index for your keywords, then skim the pages on which those wordsoccur.• Skim the first and last paragraphs in chapters that use a lot of your keywords.• Skim prologues, introductions, summary...
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