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EN102-025 Nic Helms, Sara Whitver In-Person

Option 3: Assessing Sources

This lesson corresponds with The Norton Field Guide to Writing 4th Edition, P469-472, Evaluating Sources

In this session, students will learn to assess a source for relevancy and authority to decide whether a it meets the needs of their writing assignment. Students will engage in activities and conversations throughout this session to help them understand the nature of popular and academic publishing.

This class will cover:

  • how to research an author
  • how to identify publication process
  • how to determine the intent of sources.

Learning outcomes:

  1. Students will recognize the difference between popular and scholarly sources in order to appraise a source’s value within their own research.
  2. Students will assess a source’s original intent, editorial and publication process, and the expertise of its author in order to determine its credibility.
Date:
Thursday, October 5, 2017
Time:
11:00am - 12:15pm
Time Zone:
Central Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Gorgas 104
Event Type :
EN 102
Categories:
  Humanities Instruction  

Session Organizer

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Sara Whitver

Sara Maurice Whitver is the Digital Humanities Librarian at The University of Alabama Libraries and liaison librarian for the Departments of English and Philosophy.  She joined the faculty at University of Alabama Libraries in 2012. Her academic background is in Digital Rhetoric and her research examines the ways in which people engage in posthuman worldbuilding and create space for their community on social media platforms. She is interested in reducing the barriers to digital humanities by exploring a combination of out of the box and minimal computing workflows that allow scholars to produce quality projects without having to become experts in computer programming.  She leads the Alabama Digital Humanities Center at the University of Alabama Libraries.

 

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