Course: Persuasive Writing - MS ELA

Information Processing Skills - Evaluating Information, Citing Sources & Taking Notes

In class you learned about evaluating information, citing sources and taking notes. The links below will help you deepen your understanding and ability to use these information processing skills.

Evaluating Information

Use this tutorial to learn more about identifying the author of a website.

Work through this interactive program to hone your skills at locating the author of a website.

Use this tutorial to learn more about identifying the publisher of a website.

Work through this interactive program to home your skills at identifying the publisher of a website.

Use this tutorial to learn about how websites that link to a certain web page can tell us whether or not that web page is reliable.

Work through this interactive program to practice your techniques for identifying who links to a website.

Citing Sources

Citations are necessary because they provide information about your sources of information. The citations validate your original work and credit the authors, editors and developers of the content. The links below will take you to online tools that will help you make citations of your sources.

Taking Notes

Click on the link below to open a document about taking notes on information.