W5. Learning Activity Online

Purpose

Distinguish between Google/YahooAnswers/Wikipedia sources and scholarly journal articles.

How to Prepare

Evaluating Information – Applying the CRAAP Test

• https://www.csuchico.edu/lins/handouts/eval_websites.pdf

Learning Activity

Yahoo Answers

• https://answers.yahoo.com/info/product_tour
• http://www.ask.com/technology/yahoo-answers-d29223db7b62522a

Google and Google Scholar

• http://library.royalroads.ca/infoquest-tutorials/internet-searching/google-vs-google-scholar-which-one-do-i-use

Wikipedia

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Introduction
• Wikipedia: Beneath the Surface – http://library.auraria.edu/tutorials/wikipedia-beneath-surface

Auraria Library

Cite It!

http://library.auraria.edu/tools/citation-builder

Library Tutorials

• http://library.auraria.edu/library_tutorials

Academic Search Primer

• http://library.auraria.edu/tutorials/academic-search-premier

Article Search

• http://library.auraria.edu/tutorials/article-search

Choosing and Using Keywords

• http://library.auraria.edu/tutorials/choosing-using-keywords

The Basics of Peer-Review

• http://library.auraria.edu/tutorials/basics-peer-review

Quality Search for Better Papers

• http://library.auraria.edu/tutorials/quality-research-better-papers

Opposing Viewpoints

• http://library.auraria.edu/tutorials/opposing-viewpoints

America’s News

• http://library.auraria.edu/tutorials/americas-news

 

What’s Next?

• Moving online, look for fallacies or irrelevant premises within an argument.