Sunday, 5 October 2014

Sourcing Material

Sourcing material???what we going discuss about "sourcing material"??? it is about clothes,car,motorcycle or what??? hmm ... we are going to discuss about how to know the information we got is valid,reliable and credible..

Here,,I would like to share with you all some strategies to know whether information we read or we get are valid or not. First,look at the URL address. Hmm.. here are some of the URL that we can know from where does the information comes from..
1) ....gov.com-government
2)....edu.com-education
3)....ac.com-academic
4)....org.com-organization
and etc.

Next, is by looking their content. To know the credibility of the content try looking on the author. From that, we can know their expert area. So, we know that the content can be believe or not. For example, someone talk about something which is out of their area, I believe that the content that they thought we should think back is it true or not or may be it just their opinion about that.

Lastly, we should be able differentiate between opinion and biased.. but.. how??? Hmm... There are some indicators of bias on a web page.. May be we can apply it when reading article or web. First,,,looking at their language..Often biased documents used extreme words to support their idea. Next,looking at the argument. Usually,argument appeal more to the emotions than to logic. From that , we can know that the content are biased. Others than that,look how the writers treat the people based on the topic he is writing about and pay attention to the overall tone of the article. So,, we can recognize the biased in sourcing material.

..I thinks that all comes across my mind  to share with you all right now.. ^_^ 

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