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Evaluating the quality of your sources

You must critically evaluate the quality of resources you rely upon in your assessment.​  Always consider:​

  • author/s (expert in the field?) ​
  • citations (by other papers) ​
  • quality of publisher ​
  • date of publication (recent is better)​
  • originality (adding to the body of knowledge)
  • accuracy (are there mistakes in the content?)

image showing what to look for to evaluate a paper, includes checking if peer reviewed, author authority, accuracy, objectivity, reference information.

Image from QUT AIRS course

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