Top 3 Takeaways
1. Formats
- How information is packaged
- Different formats have different purposes
- Some formats are better for your purpose
2. Sources
- The content, or the information itself
- A range of source types, but the ends are popular and scholarly
- All source types require evaluation, even scholarly sources
3. Strategies for evaluating information
- SIFT: Stop, Investigate the source, Find better coverage, Trace back to the original source --> Good for popular sources and online formats
- SCARAB: Substance, Currency, Authority, Relevance, Accuracy, Bias --> Good for more formal sources (like books) and scholarly sources
