To make your work credible, you should evaluate your sources. You will also need to evaluate the evidence you have gathered and then interpret your findings. It is also important that you do not succumb to unethical reasoning. Choose a research paper or document related to your discipline and carry out a detailed assessment of the material.

You should particularly consider the following questions:

• Is the evidence valid, reliable, and current?

• Is there a specific purpose behind the research?

• Is it possible to find the same information from other sources?

• Do the findings answer the questions that have been posed in the paper?

• Is the paper based on statistics (hard evidence) or opinions (soft evidence)?

Submit your assessment of the document to your instructor in the form of a memo or an email.