Use this handout to help students brainstorm keywords for their topic. Helps them break their topic into subtopics, and consider broader, narrower, and related concepts.
CRAAP Test outlines 5 broad elements to consider when evaluating information: Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose, and includes questions to consider for each element.
Used with permission from the CSU Chico Libraries.
Evaluating Sources (activity)
Assignment or in-class activity ideas for encouraging your students to evaluate sources:
Have students apply the CRAAP test to one of their sources from their bibliography (or a peer's).
Assign students to evaluate a source that has both strengths and weaknesses (example: policy paper with clear bias from a left- or right-leaning think tank).
Assign students to create an annotated bibliography as an early stage to a paper.
