Evaluating Sources
Cherry Michelle Underwood
Everest College

Source # 1: Interpersonal Communication Seventh Edition (book)
Summary: This book is a book that I used last year in my Fundamentals of Interpersonal Communication class online. It contains principles, concepts, and skills that will help you build the skills that you need to become a better communicator. It contains issues as the ethical challenges and choices that affect interpersonal communication emotional intelligence and forgiveness, interracial relationships, safe sex, ways to deal with abuse from intimates, race related differences between conflict styles, and the power of language. It contains quizzes that you can take to test your knowledge and skills.
Evaluating Criteria: I will use reliability to evaluate this source. There is an author listed in the book which means someone wrote the book. He has verifiable information in the book. There is a website that you can go on to find out more information about this book. The website is www.cengage.com/wadsworth.
Is the source credible? This book is very credible. The book uses verifiable information and helped me trace the sources of information. The information was reliable. There were dates on the information in the writing.

Source # 2: The National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF) Clinician’s Guide to prevention and treatment of Osteoporosis. National Osteoporosis Foundation, Washington, DC.2014 (web article) www.nlm.nih.gov Summary: It contains information on how you can prevent yourself from getting osteoporosis and what you can do to treat osteoporosis. It contains information on what you can eat or drink to make your bones strong and healthy. It also tells you what kind of food you can eat to get calcium to make your bones strong and what kind of vitamins you can take.
Evaluating Criteria: I will use reliability and timeless to evaluate this source. It was last updated this year, which means it has not too long been updated. It was sponsored by The National Osteoporosis Foundation and clinics.
Is the source credible? This site is very credible. The source has documentation and it is in order. The sponsor of the website is clinics.

Source # 3: The Lowndes County Signal (newspaper article)
Summary: It contains important things that go on in Lowndes County. It contains arrests that are made in Lowndes County. It contains information about the local businesses in Lowndes County.
Evaluating Criteria: I would use timeless to evaluate this source. It always has the date listed beside everything. The information is in order by dates.
Is the source credible? The source is credible. The author of the Lowndes Signal is from Lowndes County. He goes around the county getting information from different people and places. He verifies all of his information. He knows about everything that goes on in Lowndes County. He gives information that you can rely on.