Determining Credibilty

What are the 4 steps in determining the credibility of a source of information?

• relevant, irrelevant, perspective, and trustworthiness

• honesty, loyalty, usefulness, and advocacy

• distinguish fact from opinion, qualifications of an author, detect bias in a source, and consistency

• opposition, personal beliefs, loaded language, and inconsistency

 Documents or information that are not private and open to be viewed are called

A prejudice a person may have is

• Bias

• Opinion

Information that is useful and related to what you are working on is

 A writer or person may be biased because of

• upbringing

• position

• interest in a situation

• all of the above

• none of the above

 items that are considered PUBLIC RECORDS: (choose more than one)

• county property records

• bank accounts

• social security number

• birth certificates

• credit information

A statement of truth that can be proved is a

Anything that provides news or information

• source of information

• public record

Information not related to or connected to what you are working on is

• perspective

• irrelevant

Which of the following are sources of information discussed in the chapter?

• world wide web

• magazines

• advocacy groups

• research data

• books