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COMPLETE BOTH DISCUSSION POSTS DETAILED BELOW: PLEASE FOLLOW BOTH INSTRUCTIONS CLOSELY…FOR DISCUSSION 2 I HAVE ALSO POSTED WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK, SO REFER TO THAT INFORMATION PLEASE

DISCUSSION 1:

Read Module 3 of your course textbook and review the What is CRAAP? A Guide to Evaluating Web Sources (Links to an external site.) PDF. Watch the GEN103 Determining Authority (Links to an external site.)and GEN103 Determining Currency (Links to an external site.) videos. Find a non-scholarly web page that relates to your research question (you can use this web page for your annotated bibliography). Keep in mind you are to find a web page and not a website. Review the Websites versus Web Pages handout downloadto be sure you understand the difference between the two. Examine your chosen non-scholarly web page for currency, relevance, authority, accuracy, and purpose.
	Reflect: Reflect on the elements of the CRAAP test and how each one indicates the credibility and reliability of a source. Consider how your evaluation of each of these elements affects your understanding of the strength of the source. Think about why it is important to evaluate any web page that you plan to rely on for information.
	Write: Apply the CRAAP test to your source. For each of the CRAAP criteria, start a new paragraph. In each paragraph, state which criterion you are addressing and evaluate the source based on that criterion. Provide specific examples to support your evaluation. Evaluate your source’s overall strength based on the elements of the CRAAP test. Is this source appropriate to use in answering to your research question, why or why not? Explain one thing you have learned from the process of doing this CRAAP test. Provide a properly formatted APA reference to the web page at the end of your initial post. Your initial post must be at least 350 words and address all of the prompt’s elements. You must cite and reference any sources that you use in your posts, including your textbook or any other sources of information that you use. Please refer to the Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.) and Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) for help with citing and referencing your sources.

DISCUSSION 2:

Write: This discussion forum is an opportunity for you to explore topics that interest you, share critical insights and questions that you are working with, share your struggles and triumphs, and discuss difficulties that may have arisen this week, hopefully finding solutions. Your posts should describe your experiences in the course this past week, prompting further discussion. You should address at least one of the following questions:

• What struck you in particular as you explored the course materials this week?
• How might you apply this information to your life in the future?
• What insights have you had?
• What have you been struggling with?
• What questions have come up for you at this point?
• What helpful tips have you picked up in this course or in a past course?

Weekly Learning Outcomes

This week students will:

1. Evaluate a non-scholarly web page for reliability and trustworthiness using the CRAAP test.
2. Identify primary concepts for source evaluation.
3. Explain the importance of source evaluation.
4. Synthesize evaluation of specific criteria in evaluating a source’s appropriateness for a specific research question.
5. Demonstrate knowledge of subjective and objective information.