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The purpose of this research guide is to assist students in identifying and evaluating sources that are often used for college assignments. Navigate through the guide by using the blue tabs at the top. In general, it is organized by type of information source:
This guide is based on the work of Mike FitzGerald, Los Angeles Valley College Library, which can be found here.
The SIFT Method portion of this guide was adapted from "Check, Please!" (Caulfield). The canonical version of Check, Please! exists at http://lessons.checkplease.cc (CC-BY). As the authors of the original version have not reviewed any other copy's modifications, the text of any site not arrived at through the above link should not be sourced to the original authors.
