Hi, my major work is due on wednesday and im wondering just what a source evaluation is in this sense? What sources should i pick? What should i write?
Thanks
Hey, Welcome to AN!!
The source evaluation is on the three most valuable sources of your essay (for mine it was both of my historian's books and a YouTube video of the topic). It's 600 words max, so it's around 200 words each (however one of mine was a bit longer). It isn't as big as what you would do in modern and focuses on the strengths/weaknesses, usefulness and reliability and some reasons why it was valuable to your project/argument in your essay. You need to have a strong judgement throughout the source analysis on it's usefulness and reliability to get into the A range.
Some of the things I looked at for reliability included:
Academic qualifications (one was a professor at Harvard)
Methodology (if they used a lot of sources, one was selective in their use of sources, etc.)
Biases (one had a father in a concentration camp)
What I had for usefulness included:
How it had helped me in terms of the project (what I did and didn't get out of this source for my essay)
Hope this helps!!
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