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Step 5 – Evaluate Bias for Your Sources


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1) Place a heading at the top of your page to include:

Your Name

Course Title

Professor’s Name

Assignment Title

Today’s Date

2) Name your topic. For example, Iron Work. (See Step 1 if you have forgotten your topic.)

3) Locate Your Sources:

1 scholarly journal article (This is from Step 1.)

1 internet article (This is from Step 2.)

4) Provide the following for your internet article so that both you and your professor can find it.

author (if available)

article title

website title

link – Use the Stable URL provided on JSTOR and EBSCO sites. For the internet article, where available, provide a Stable URL.

5) Using the skills that you have learned, evaluate the bias in each of your sources. Explain your evaluation using the following as guides:

How biased does the article appear?

What makes you think this?

Are there polarizing terms?

  • How much attention is paid to opposing views?
  • Be sure that you are addressing bias, rather than focus. An article about English settlers in 18th century New England is not biased just because it is about English settlers. Bias is slant or a prejudice in favor of one side or another.
  • It is possible that you will have an article that has so little bias that it is not apparent at all. Simply state that the article appears balanced, or that bias is not apparent, and explain why you think so.
  • Each article should look like this:

6) Use the rubric at the end of Submit Your Assignment as a checklist while you work and again before you turn it in.

If you have any questions at all, please do not hesitate to ask in the Connect With Your Professor module or directly email your professor directly.

Assignments must be submitted as a Word document. This means that the file name will end in .doc or .docx as in the following example: Johnson_Annotated_Bibliography.doc

  • If there is a problem with this requirement, contact your professor.
  • 7) When you have completed and proofread your work, submit your work for feedback and grading as a .doc or .docx.
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