On Monday, January 7, 2008 you will be turning in your Evaluation of Sources. This is the section of the IA that students do poorly on compared to the rest of their IA.
Your job is to give a critical evaluation of two important sources appropriate to the investigation. You must refer to each source's ORIGIN, PURPOSE, VALUE, and LIMITATION. You are to assess the usefulness of the sources, but not describe their content or nature.
Some brief info. on each of these segments: Origin - where did the source come from? Purpose - what was it written for? Value - what was it's value to the historical investigation? Limitation - not just bias! For instance, a photo is just a snapshot in time or refer to the time period it was written in....
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