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Step 3: Reviewing Sources (detail)
Benefits and Drawbacks of Newspapers
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Benefits
- Very current information; newspapers are usually published daily or weekly.
- Excellent sources of regional and local news.
- Articles are usually short and easy to read.
- Provide insight into events, trends, and issues as they become current in the news.
- Articles often found online, in full-text. See Lexis/Nexis, also "Newpapers" resource tab under your
subject.
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Drawbacks
- Not usually considered scholarly resources.
- For the most part, articles do not provide in-depth insight and information on subjects.
- May reflect a political, economic, personal or social bias; learn to evaluate the information to discover its worth.
- Click here for advice on evaluating and choosing Web sites./span>
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Return to Step 3 to review more types of sources
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Adapted with permission from the
JSCC Library Information Literacy Tutorial.
Comments and suggestions to
Barbara Quintiliano, Instructional Design Librarian.
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