Assignment task:
Shay Clawson
It is important to critically analyze sources for many reasons. Not only do we want to make sure that the resources we are using are factual, have roots within the subject we are actively trying to use their paper for, and we want to make sure that they are a reputable source. Scholarly sources are more appropriate for academic research because of these reasons. Scholarly sources hold more weight in the specific subject that you are using the source for as they have multiple authors, who are in those fields, they have been published within a journal that is specific to the field, and they are actively showing research for that field.
In 2007, a journal article was published by Calkins and Kelley on the evaluation of Internet and scholarly sources. It looked at two different case studies, psychology undergraduate students, and history undergraduate students. I will be focusing on the psychology undergraduate students' case study, specifically the CARS method that was used to understand whether a source was credible, accurate, reasonable, and had the support it needed to make the claims it was. This along with the SPECIAL acronym I brought up in the last discussion is a useful way to understand if a source should be used. The scholarly sources that we use for academic research should be held to both standards. Need Assignment Help?
Calkins, S., & Kelley, M. R. (2007). Evaluating Internet and Scholarly Sources across the Disciplines: Two Case Studies. College Teaching, 55(4), 151-156.