3.2 Source Relevancy

Outline of this lesson:

• Identify key sections of sources that are more relevant to your own research paper
• Rate how relevant a source is to your own research topic
• Write a "relevancy" paragraph for your source

A.  Introduction to relevancy

What does relevancy mean?
How does this relate to choosing sources for the paper?

Handout 1: (Library Day) Concept map


B. Relevancy checklist

Handout 2: Source relevancy chart (sample)
PowerPoint: Writing source relevancy statement


C. Practice

Handout 3: Source  Analysis - Part one (key)


D. Homework

1. Use handout 2 to help you check the relevancy of a source to your research paper.
2. Follow the instructions in the PowerPoint. Write a "relevancy" paragraph for each of your source
3. Writer's Help 2.0: Checkpoint 2 due tonight 03/30 Wed, 11:59pm