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Evaluating Information Sources For Audience and Purpose

Evaluating Information Sources For Audience and Purpose

This lecture explains how to identify the intended audience and purpose of an information source, and why that is important for academic research.

Keywords:
audience, evaluating sources, bias, information literacy, agenda
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Material Type:
Presentation
Date Added to MERLOT:
November 3, 2013
Date Modified in MERLOT:
June 11, 2014
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Sarah Morehouse
Primary Audience:
High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division
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Video
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Language:
English
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This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States

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Sarah Morehouse
Sarah Morehouse (Librarian)
9 years ago
This video uses audience design and genre studies concepts (although not explicitly stated, no jargon) to help students understand how to select reliable information sources based on for what audience and for what purpose the information sources were created.