Evaluating Sources (9/3/2015)

Today we looked at how to respond to questions that ask you to analyze a source, make a claim, and use evidence to support your claim.

We discussed:

1. Using a topic sentence.
2. Writing your claim based on the question being asked, and information in the source.
3. Using a transition statement to set up your quote (evidence) from the source.
4. Adding extra information after the evidence (what does the evidence mean to you?).
5. Closing sentence.

We also discussed not getting caught up in primary sources being "better than" secondary sources. Instead, source the document and determine if the source is reliable or trustworthy. Below is the link to the paper we used in class to evaluate sources.............

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