UNM-Valencia Library: English 120 Evaluation Exercise
Activity 1 Evaluating Sources
- You will be evaluating 5 sources and choosing what you believe to be the best 2 sources.
- Your assignment is to write an proposal essay on the animal shelters.
More information on the assignment, citations and abstracts for the sources can be found in the Instruction Sheet. - The full text of each source is linked below and will open in separate tabs.
- You will have 25 minutes to examine the sources and determine your choice.
- You will then "vote" your rankings by placing your tokens on the matching article on the front table.
Activity 2 Evaluation Discussion & Demo
- Discuss your choices with your neighbor.
- Be prepared to describe why you choose that source
- TRAP worksheet
- Anatomy of a Scholarly Articles
The Research Process
- Choose your topic.
- Create your search strategy.
- Search for resources.
- Evaluate.
- Search again and evaluate.
- Use the information for your paper.
Activity 3 Re-Vote
- You have 5 minutes to re-examine the 5 sources and re-vote using 2 new tokens.