This page will help you evaluate sources based on your research needs. This is crucial to selecting and using appropriate sources for your capstone research paper.

Although you do not have a certain number of scholarly or popular sources required for your research paper, it is important to be able to differentiate between these types of sources and how to use them properly in academic research.

Video Transcript

If you want to learn more about evaluating sources, you can complete the Evaluating Sources lesson, which covers how to evaluate information based on its appropriateness to an information need, whether for a real-life scenario or an academic project. You can also use the worksheet to guide your process.