Tutorial: Evaluating Online Sources through Lateral Reading: An Introduction (Part 1/2)

Welcome! We’re your friendly Rowan librarians, Andrea Baer and Dan Kipnis. We’ll work with you to navigate a complex work of evaluating online sources. Carefully evaluating online sources has become especially important and more challenging as it’s become easier for anyone to create polished-looking web content. Educators like us are working to make online evaluation a less daunting process, one that helps you have more confidence and choice in how you navigate the online world.

This tutorial has two parts:

• Part 1: This an introduction to lateral reading. It includes time for you to practice and closes with an evaluation exercise. You need to complete the exercise in order to move on the Part 2.
• Part 2: Once you've submitted your evaluation exercise, you'll receive information on how to access Part 2. In Part 2 you'll get feedback on your evaluation exercise and do a Post-Activity Reflection.  We'll also wrap up with final points to remember.

Navigate through each part with the left-side menu, or click the "Next" links at the bottom of each page.

Note about Tutorial Activities

The tutorial creators are collecting responses to the tutorial activities in order to assess their effectiveness. Before completing the first exercise, you will be asked whether or not you agree to have your responses included in the analysis. You can continue with all activities, regardless of whether or not you agree.

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This guide was created by Andrea Baer and Dan Kipnis at Rowan University and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC-SA).

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