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CA 112: EVALUATING CONTENT

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There are many ways that you can evaluate materials. There are some basic questions your CA 112 professor suggests you must ask yourself first when reading materials:

Some resources that the library provides to help answer these questions are:

  • Compare Magazines and Journals: Is my source scholarly?
  • E.S.A: Earned Scholarly Average (Evaluating Books, Magazines, and Journals)
  • V.E.S.A: Virtual Earned Scholarly Average (Evaluating Websites)

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