November 3rd, 2020 
*THREE PARTS OF THE EVALUATION*
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1) *APA REERENCE (10%)*
Make sure that it is an APA format.
2) *SUMMARY OF THE SOURCE (40%)*
– Should be 100-120 words.
– It should not contain any >3 words of source wording,
– A good summary should include:
a. The overall idea or purpose of the original
b. The essential main idea of the original
c. Any essential supporting details for the main ideas
– A good summary should exclude:
a. New info.
b. irrelevant info
c. Own opinion
d. “I” and “We”
e. Reference phrases like “According to…)
f. Footnotes
g. Reference data
3) *SOURCE EVALUATION (50%)*
– Should be 120-140 words.
– CATLABPR which means: Currency, Acceptable?, Teacher’s requirements, Language, Author, Bias, Publication, Relevance.
– Teacher’s req.: What the teacher expects with: Text length, Text age, Text origin, Bibliographical Completeness.
– Biased article is written from one point of view, it is not balanced.
– Author, can be individual, group, organization, sometimes anonymous. Are they experts? Did they publish before?
– Does the source deal in facts or opinions? Facts are piece of information that can be proven to be true, Opinions are ideas about a particular topic and must always be supported by an evidence.
– Currency refers to the relevance of the information based on the publication date.
– USE words like: The article is *brief and recent*, it has useful facts, it contain some bias, less than 3 years old, author is experienced, excellent reputation, the language is for educated reader.
****Finally, you must put the number of words after both the summary and the evaluation.****
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