Who’s Your Source?: A Writer’s Guide to Effectively Evaluating and Ethically Using Resources

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While students today have access to more sources of information than ever before, they are not necessarily equipped to make informed judgments about those sources. Teaching students to evaluate sources has become even more challenging in the last year as issues regarding fake news and alternative facts have become a heated matter in conversations taking place in the public sphere.

The book will present students with a set of tools that they can use to evaluate any source that they encounter. In addition to learning how to use sources in their writing, students who read Who’s Your Source? will become more savvy consumers of the sources they encounter in their daily lives.

Key Features

Uses a simple three-part strategy to evaluate sources: rhetorical appeals, rhetorical situation, and reality check Grounded in rhetorical theory-encourages students to evaluate the soundness of arguments as well as the reliability of sources Incorporates real examples from the authors’ experience as instructors-and as scholars