Evaluating your sources is an important step in the research process. There are a number of approaches for evaluating health-related information. You need to evaluate carefully each source to determine its appropriateness and quality.
Queen's University Library's Evaluating Sources Checklist also lists criteria used to assess information sources.
Anyone can create a webpage so it is particularly important to analyze and assess information that you find on the Internet before using it in a research paper.
Critically evaluating your sources is a crucial step in the research process.
Critical literacy ensures that anti-racism, anti-discrimination, and decolonization is put into practice. Engaging in critical information literacy, readers are encouraged to ask questions such as where the power is in the text, whose viewpoint is present, and whose is missing.