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ETHN106 (Iyengar)

In-class Exercise

Resource Challenge #1

Take a look at this resource and do your best to answer the questions below:

Questions:

  1. What are we looking at?
  2. Who created it and why?
  3. Where can we look to find these answers? Where can we go to learn more about this organization?
  4. Is there bias?

Resource Challenge #2

Take a look at this resource and do your best to answer the questions below:

Questions:

  1. What are we looking at?
  2. Who created it and why?
  3. Is this being presented as personal, professional, scholarly, or journalistic?
  4. Is there anything about this site that makes you wonder about it's credibility?
  5. Who does the author cite or references throughout the site?

Resource Challenge #3 - work in pairs or groups of 3

Take a look at this resource and do your best to answer the questions below:

Questions:

  1. What are we looking at?
  2. Who created it and why?
  3. Is this being presented as personal, professional, scholarly, or journalistic?
  4. Is there anything about this site that makes you wonder about it's credibility?
  5. Are there any outside references or resources on this site?

Resource Challenge #4 - work in pairs or groups of 3

Find your own resource! Use any search tool you want to locate a resource about the poet Christy Passion

Research tip: The best search in Google to start with is  "Christy Passion" poet - this will search for the name "Christy Passion" as a phrase and will only bring back results with the word poet also included.

Questions:

  1. Describe your source. What is it? What are we looking at?
  2. Who created it and why?
  3. Who created and runs this site? How can you learn more about them?
  4. Is this being presented as personal, professional, scholarly, or journalistic?
  5. Are there any outside references or resources on this site?
  6. Would you use this source in a college paper or project? Why or why not?
  7. With more time, could you find something better?