Question

How would you choose research sources? What factors should be taken into consideration? How can you know your sources are legitimate?

Answer 1

To choose research sources you need to be careful while reading and evaluate the sources critically. The sources which are legitimate like the government sites, articles from good research journals, information by reputed newspapers and their sources of information. Most importantly to evaluate if the sources are legitimate just check the reliability of data, qualification of author, objectivity of writings and coverage of document. Also one of the major factors to be taken into account is the time of published information. Old datas are to udated and not taken as it is. For internet related data, check the about the sites section of data source. See if the author/web master provides e-mail address or other contact information so that he or she can be contacted for enquiries or further information. Also check the domains properly like .com, .edu, .gov, .org can be relied upon but with proper scrutiny of site.