Source Evaluator
by @quochungto
Evaluate, triage, and actively read a set of research sources — books, articles, and online materials — by applying a dual-axis relevance-and-reliability scr...
Example 1: Triaging a bibliography
Research question: "How did social media use during the 2020 US election affect political polarization?"
Given 12 sources, the evaluator would:
Example 2: Reading for a research problem
A student reading a secondary source on urban desegregation finds the source argues that federal mandates uniformly increased white flight. The student applies creative disagreement type 3 (developmental contradiction): data from three Midwestern cities suggest the pattern peaked and then reversed after 5 years. That disagreement is the research problem.
Example 3: Context-preserving note
Poor note: "Jones (p. 123): The war was caused by Z." Better note: "Jones argues the war was caused by X, Y, and Z (p. 123); he considers Z the most important cause (p. 123), for reasons on pp. 124-28. Note: X and Y are introduced as background context, not as Jones's main causal argument."
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