what are the four questions you may ask yourself when determining if a source is relevant?
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['What is it about? ... ', 'What is the subject area focus? ... ', 'Are you looking for recent information? ... ', 'Is it a book or an article? ... ', 'Is it scholarly? ... ', 'What type of article is it?']
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['They are intended primarily for occasional consultation.', 'They are consulted for definite items of information.', 'The information included in them is collected from a vast number of sources.', 'It is a miscellany of information and facts.']
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['What are the issue and the conclusion?', 'What are the reasons?', 'What are the assumptions?', 'Are there any fallacies in the reasoning?', 'How good is the evidence?']
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['What is good?', 'What is real?', 'What is true?', 'What is fair?']
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['Define a clear question and approach to answering it.', 'Highlight its originality and/or significance.', 'Explain how it adds to, develops (or challenges) existing literature in the field.', 'Persuade potential supervisors and/or funders of the importance of the work, and why you are the right person to undertake it.']
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['Quotations, opinions, and predictions, whether directly quoted or paraphrased.', 'Statistics derived by the original author.', 'Visuals in the original.', "Another author's theories.", 'Case studies.']
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["What's the claim?", 'Who says?', "What's the evidence?", 'How did they get the evidence?', 'Is there anything (or anyone) to back up this claim?', 'Could there be another explanation?', 'Who cares?']
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["Ask 'what, when, where, who' to gather fact and context.", "Ask 'how do you' to uncover processes and flows.", "Ask 'how might we' to investigate opportunities.", "Ask 'why' to find underlying reasons and motivations."]
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['Put the problem in context (what do we already know?)', 'Describe the precise issue that the research will address (what do we need to know?)', 'Show the relevance of the problem (why do we need to know it?)', 'Set the objectives of the research (what will you do to find out?)']
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['Was the source created at the same time of the event it describes? ... ', 'Who furnished the information? ... ', 'Is the information in the record such as names, dates, places, events, and relationships logical? ... ', 'Does more than one reliable source give the same information?', 'What other evidence supports the information in the source?']
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['Is the information related to your topic? Does it help you better understand your topic?', 'Is the information at an appropriate depth or level for your assignment?']
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['Read each question carefully and ensure their answers address the question.', 'Keep answers succinct.', 'Only consider the information provided in the question and avoid developing a collateral history beyond this information.']
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['Where does the information come from?', 'Is the information supported by evidence?', 'Has the information been reviewed?', 'Can you verify any of the information in another source or by your own knowledge?', 'Does the language or tone seem biased?', 'Are there spelling, grammatical or typographical errors?']
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['1) Identify the Central Claim or Thesis.', '2) Identify all the Explicit Reasons.', '3) Begin identifying the Implicit Reasons.', '4) Identify and evaluate the Evidence.', '5) Look for Logical Fallacies.']
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['Question 1: Do you have a significant amount of knowledge or experience in the topic? ... ', 'Question 2: Is the topic something that your audience will be interested in? ... ', 'Question 3: Am I personally interested in this topic?']
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['QUESTION: Does the information appear to be fact or fiction? Is there evidence to support the facts? ... ', 'QUESTION: Is there bias? Does the information appear to be slanted? ... ', 'QUESTION: Is the text filled with emotional language? Does the text appeal to your feelings and not your intellect? ... ', 'Bad signs.']
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['What has been / was your most important scientific finding? ... ', 'Are your methods generally accepted? ... ', 'How do your results compare with others in the area? ... ', 'How accurate is your data? ... ', 'How sure are you of your conclusions and interpretation? ... ', 'Is there controversy in this area?']