{"id":2176,"date":"2023-09-09T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.wu.ac.at\/bib\/fit4research\/?page_id=2176"},"modified":"2024-07-09T11:38:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T09:38:56","slug":"evaluating-academic-sources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.wu.ac.at\/bib\/fit4research\/index.php\/en\/fit4research-english\/academic-reading-writing\/evaluating-academic-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluating academic sources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>You want to <a href=\"https:\/\/library.wu.ac.at\/bib\/fit4research\/index.php\/en\/fit4research-english\/cite-and-organize-your-literature\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/library.wu.ac.at\/bib\/fit4research\/index.php\/en\/fit4research-english\/cite-and-organize-your-literature\/\">cite<\/a> an article, a book, or a website in a written assignment but have doubts about whether it&#8217;s a reliable source? Sometimes, assessing the scholarly quality of texts can be challenging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the following sections, we will guide you on the <a href=\"https:\/\/library.wu.ac.at\/bib\/fit4research\/index.php\/en\/fit4research-english\/evaluating-academic-sources\/quality-criteria-of-academic-sources\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/library.wu.ac.at\/bib\/fit4research\/index.php\/en\/fit4research-english\/evaluating-academic-sources\/quality-criteria-of-academic-sources\/\">formal and content criteria<\/a> that are important for evaluating whether a text meets academic standards. 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Sometimes, assessing the scholarly quality of texts can be challenging. In the following sections, we will guide you on the formal and content criteria that are important for evaluating whether a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/library.wu.ac.at\/bib\/fit4research\/index.php\/en\/fit4research-english\/academic-reading-writing\/evaluating-academic-sources\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Evaluating academic sources<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":4857,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2176","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.wu.ac.at\/bib\/fit4research\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.wu.ac.at\/bib\/fit4research\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.wu.ac.at\/bib\/fit4research\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.wu.ac.at\/bib\/fit4research\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.wu.ac.at\/bib\/fit4research\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.wu.ac.at\/bib\/fit4research\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4876,"href":"https:\/\/library.wu.ac.at\/bib\/fit4research\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2176\/revisions\/4876"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.wu.ac.at\/bib\/fit4research\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.wu.ac.at\/bib\/fit4research\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}