Choose any book or article that you have found. Using the information you find within the source itself, answer the following questions. Give specific examples where you can.

1. Authorship. What can you find on the page about the author and their affiliations or credentials? How does this support or prove their expertise in the topic being discussed? (If there are multiple authors, start with the first author. If the author is not named, look at the publisher or agency that produced the source.)
2. Currency. How old is this source? How old are the majority of sources in the bibliography? Is this a field for which information goes out of date quickly? Why or why not?
3. Audience/Relevance. Give some specific clues that help you identify the target audience for this book or article. Does this seem appropriate to a university level study or paper?
4. Purpose: What is the author trying to do? Find a sentence within the book or article to quote that gives an idea of the objective for the author. Does this objective give you any reason to question this source or does it point you towards additional research?
5. Bias: Bias can be hard to spot, and there may not be a bias in every article. Think about the topic, what is a potential bias that you might need to be on the look out for?