The evaluating sources lesson taught me a lot that I wasn’t aware of. It also referenced some things that I had known. The lesson touched on things like print sources also being available as online sources. It mentioned things that I thought were more important to journalism and not writing an essay. Things that I thought were important to journalism include: date of publication, date of copyright, whether or not the writer was biased,etc. After this lesson two important concepts that I learned about was C.R.A.A.P. and the way it is used with the different types of sources; I also learned about was how different sources are more trustworthy. I don’t think all sources are reliable and living in the world today I thought online sources are very reliable and are able to get information a lot quicker than a newspaper. I learned that a printed sources doesn’t exclude online articles because they can be printed at a later time. Applying the concepts I learned outside of our class, I think will be challenging. Not many times will I have to cite my work, but it does give the information I would use more credibility. The lessons also taught me when a source could be reliable or when to trust someones opinion about a certain topic. I was taught that it was more to writing than just having informative statements.
