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Evaluate Sources - A Self-Guided Tutorial: Evaluation Methods

Evaluation Methods

Now that you've learned more about evaluating information as well as bias and agenda, you may be thinking, how can I evaluate the information I encounter?

There are many options for frameworks to help you evaluate information. For example, you may have heard of methods like CRAAP (Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose). 

While any method that helps you better evaluate information is valid, there are two frameworks that we'll cover in this tutorial. The 6 journalistic question words, and SIFT. 

6 journalistic question words (who, what, where, when, why, how) and SIFT method (Stop, Investigate the source, Find better coverage, Trace claim back to original)