SIRS Issues Researcher Resource Type: Handouts Categories: Finding How to use SIRS Issues Researcher, which provides information on current social issues, economics, business, politics, global issues, scientific developments, health, history, government, culture, the arts and humanities. Read More
Skepticism in the Era of Fake News and Circular Reporting Resource Type: Video Categories: Evaluating Finding Duration: 03:39 This video describes how poor journalistic practices can perpetuate misinformation and highlights the importance of skepticism and verifying information by finding the original source. Read More
Source type group activity Resource Type: In-class activities Categories: Evaluating This is an in class activity designed for a WR 121 class that has already read some assigned readings on a topic. Their assignment is to find 2-3 additional sources to write a paper on something within the bigger topic (no specific type of source is required). Read More
The C.R.A.P. Test in action: Websites Resource Type: Video Categories: Evaluating Duration: 5:00 This 5-minute video demonstrates using the C.R.A.P. test (Currency, Reliability, Authority, and Purpose/Point of view) to evaluate websites on the topic of performance enhancing drugs in sports. Read More
Turning an Interest into a Researchable Question Resource Type: Video Categories: Getting started Duration: 5:11 In this video students learn how to turn something they find interesting into a researchable question for a college research project. Read More