{"id":179,"date":"2024-10-04T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/global\/?page_id=179"},"modified":"2024-10-04T18:00:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T18:00:23","slug":"guide-to-critical-thinking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/global\/global-studies-library-services\/global-studies-class-and-subject-guides\/guide-to-critical-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide to Critical Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong>CHECKLIST FOR EVALUATING INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>IDENTIFYING YOUR INFORMATION NEED<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What do you already know about your subject?<\/li>\n<li>What are your preconceived ideas or biases?<\/li>\n<li>Do you want general or specialized information?<\/li>\n<li>What is the central focus of your information need?<\/li>\n<li>How much information do you require?<\/li>\n<li>What types of information do you want?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>EVALUATING THE SOURCE OF THE INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How did you discover the source &#8211; an index? bibliography? reference work? web search engine?<\/li>\n<li>What type of source is it &#8211; scholarly? general? commercial?<\/li>\n<li>What are the author&#8217;s or producer&#8217;s qualifications on this topic? &#8211; education? experience? occupation? position? affiliation?<\/li>\n<li>When was the information published?<\/li>\n<li>Where was the information published?<\/li>\n<li>What is the publisher&#8217;s reputation and\/or type &#8211; university press?\u00a0 alternative press or website? commercial press or website? private organization?<\/li>\n<li>Was the material reviewed or edited for publication?<\/li>\n<li>Does the source show political or cultural biases?<\/li>\n<li>Is a bibliography or other form of documentation included?<\/li>\n<li>Is it organized so you can easily access the information you require?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DETERMINING THE SUITABILITY OF THE SOURCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is the scope and purpose of the work?<\/li>\n<li>Who is the audience for the work &#8211; general public? students? experts?<\/li>\n<li>Is the information presented clearly and objectively?<\/li>\n<li>Is the work suitable for your level of understanding of the subject?<\/li>\n<li>Does it have the features you need &#8211; graphs? tables? charts?<\/li>\n<li>Does it contain the information you need?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; from Evaluating Information: A Basic Checklist (1994) by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/\">American Library Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHECKLIST FOR EVALUATING INFORMATION \u00a0 IDENTIFYING YOUR INFORMATION NEED What do you already know about your subject? What are your preconceived ideas or biases? Do you want general or specialized information? What is the central focus of your information need? How much information do you require? What types of information do you want? \u00a0 EVALUATING [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"parent":31,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-179","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179\/revisions\/180"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}