Costa Rica: Evaluating Sources

This guide offers resources in English and Spanish useful for general, historical, scientific, environmental or travel research about Costa Rica.

Recognizing Fake News

Wikipedia - What is right and wrong with it?

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Wikipedia may provide accurate background information, but it must be verified and should not be cited as a source.  The bibliographies and related links that follow Wikipedia entries can be very useful and reliable sources that are often appropriate to cite in research papers.

TIPS on using Wikipedia efficiently and wisely - See tutorial below.

Why you can't depend on Wikipedia

Evaluating Websites

How to quickly evaluate a website

  • Authority - who is behind the website?
  • Bias - is the information biased?
  • Currency - when was the site updated?
  • Documentation - are the sources cited?

Evaluating a website's purpose

CRAAP Test - California State University, Chico

Fact Checking

Crash Course - Navigating Digital Information #3

Look to your left. Look to your right. Look at this video. Today, John Green is going to teach you how to read laterally, using multiple tabs in your browser to look stuff up and fact check as you read. Real-time fact-checking can help you figure out what's real and what's not on the internet.  (2019)

Check your facts

How to Evaluate Resources (the CRAAP Test)

WHO IS??? Find out who is really behind a website . . .

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