Evaluating Information Sources: Introduction

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Welcome to this tutorial on Evaluating Information Sources. 

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This tutorial aims to ...

• Help you understand the importance of evaluating the quality of the information sources you use in your academic work.
• Introduce you to five of the main criteria you can use to judge the academic quality of the information that you find.
• Enable you to critically assess the reliability, authority and validity of a range of information sources in your discipline.