Tutorial: Evaluating Information

You can find a lot of information online, but not all of it is reliable. You don't want to make a major business decision on bad data, so how do you decide whether to trust a source or not.. This tutorial provides a way of systematically thinking about information sources in order to make that decision.

Picture of Vincent
Vincent looks truthworthy enough, but you should critically examine the articles he found before deciding whether to use them as sources in your project.

Imagine you have a group project on the soft drink industry. You divide up the work so that everyone finds articles on part of your project. Vincent's job was to find information on the market leaders in this industry. He has found 2 articles to use in your project. Since this will impact the grade for the whole group, let's look at the articles Vincent has found and decide whether we want to use them in our project.

1. Tutorial:

2. Detailed explanations of the 5 categories covered in the tutorial