During your course of study, your professors may ask you to find and use credible information sources to help you complete assignments and projects. Credibility is a combination of reliability, authority, validity, and accuracy.
This guide offers tips and a method for figuring out the validity of information sources. It will help you evaluate an information source in print or from the internet and determine its credibility. Learn what it means for a source to be "credible", why is it important to use credible sources and how to tell if a source is credible.
The definition of a credible source can change depending on the discipline, but in general, for academic writing, a credible source is one that is unbiased and is backed up with evidence. When writing a research paper, always use and cite credible sources.
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