Website Evaluation and Print Source Evaluation Handouts

• E.S.A: Earned Scholarly Average
• E.S.A.H: Earned Scholarly Average for the Humanities
• V.E.S.A: Virtual Earned Scholarly Average
• V.E.S.A.H:Virtual Earned Scholarly Average for the Humanities
• Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources
• Thinking Critically about Discipline-Based World Wide Web Resources
• Universe of Information
• Weltanschauung Grid

These worksheets are a way to help you think about the scholarly worth of a source or, in other words, how reliable the source is as evidence to prove or disprove a thesis. Most scholars don't use a point system which is outlined in the handouts to figure out what a paper's E.S.A. (earned scholarly average) is.

Scholarly vs. Popular

• Scholarly, Professional/Trade or Popular Guide to Periodicals

Finding Book Reviews