Sourcing Materials

Howdy fellas.

This post is gonna be about sourcing materials; which is how we are going to evaluate the sourcesof information that we used as references to do our assignment.

First of all, we need to know that information can be classified into three levels;

1. Single-fact information
    - specific factual information

2. General information
    - overall perspective on a particular topic

3. In-depth information
    - a detailed account of a topic

And all these information can be found or retrieved from;

1. The Internet
    - e Journals
    - search engines
    - group discussions forums
    - online database journals

2. Periodicals
    - journals
    - specialized magazines
    - newspapers and magazines

3. Theses and Dissertations
    - books


Thus, how do we evaluate all of these sources? And why should we evaluate them?

As for the latter, we need to evaluate these sources to ensure that the sources are useful, credible, reliable as well as relevant for our writing. And as how do we evaluate them, we need a checklist consisting of all the W-H questions such as who is the author of the article and etc.