Use of Sources

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When you are researching information for your class assignment, what source do you use first?

Multiple Select

When searching for scholarly sources using a database, what filters are important for your results?

• Scholarly/Academic

• Peer reviewed

• Full text

• Journal Articles

Multiple Choice

What type of source is Newsweek?

• Scholarly

• Popular

• Tertiary

Multiple Choice

What type of source is the American Sociological Review?

• Scholarly

• Popular

• Tertiary

Multiple Choice

What type of source is Credo Reference?

• Scholarly

• Popular

• Tertiary

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Evaluating Websites

Multiple Choice

From what you know so far, which links below appears to be a more credible source?

• https://vanityfair.com/2008/05

• https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/nioshtic8/2020

Multiple Select

Which statements below are Boolean Operator search rules to follow?

• Use the word AND to narrow your search and connect terms.

• Use the word OR to broaden your search

• Use "quotes" around phrases to marry, join or hug words together

• Use (parentheses) to keep concepts that are alike together and tell the database to look there first.

Using Databases

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