My thoughts on Source Analysis...



This week, we are working on source analysis. Doing a source analysis allows me to test the liability of the source that I'm using for my research. After all, not all sources are created equal! I found the process to be a lot more complicated than I've expected since most of the sources I've found are either too general for my research question or too bias to be reliable. The five sources I've found were from Proquest, Google database, newspaper, and a published book. My favorite place to find articles on food additives is Proquest. They provide a wide range of articles written by different professions, from medical perspective to bussiness to just pure journalism. They also have information needed for a source analysis like the author, the date it was written, and the publisher. The body part of my source analysis was mainly based on different aspects of the source analysis worksheet such as who, when, where and etc...