Evaluating Information from Internet Sources
This blog post appears in the FAQ section of the Climate Change Truth File section of the website of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow. (For another view on climate change, see Figure 5.3 in “Conducting Secondary Research.”) The questions below ask you to consider the guidelines for evaluating Internet sources (see “Guidelines: Evaluating Print and Online Resources in Conducting Secondary Research”).
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Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, 2013: www.cfact.org/issues/climate-change/climate-change-truth-file/.
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5.1
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5.2
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5.3
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