{"id":752,"date":"2018-04-02T17:54:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T17:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/writehere\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=752"},"modified":"2018-07-13T14:20:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T14:20:47","slug":"types-of-information","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/chapter\/types-of-information\/","title":{"raw":"Types of Information","rendered":"Types of Information"},"content":{"raw":"<h1>Finding Credible Information<\/h1>\r\nFor your academic assignments, you will be asked to consult credible sources like academic books and peer-reviewed journal articles. Different writing assignments can also require other sources of information like government statistics or personal interviews.\r\n\r\nAs a researcher you want to use sources that are credible. Credible sources provide <strong>information that is factual and can be verified.<\/strong> You also need to be aware of bias in your sources. \u00a0Bias refers to a source's intent or purpose. It is possible for credible sources to have some bias as they might learn towards one particular research methodology or viewpoint, but they will still use sources to support their argument. What to watch out for is sources that have extreme bias. These sources are overtly one-sided, lack factual information or provide little to no evidence to back up their arguments.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1407\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"281\"]<img src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/04\/approved-160121_1280-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"281\" class=\"wp-image-1407\" \/> From Pixabay.[\/caption]","rendered":"<h1>Finding Credible Information<\/h1>\n<p>For your academic assignments, you will be asked to consult credible sources like academic books and peer-reviewed journal articles. Different writing assignments can also require other sources of information like government statistics or personal interviews.<\/p>\n<p>As a researcher you want to use sources that are credible. Credible sources provide <strong>information that is factual and can be verified.<\/strong> You also need to be aware of bias in your sources. \u00a0Bias refers to a source&#8217;s intent or purpose. It is possible for credible sources to have some bias as they might learn towards one particular research methodology or viewpoint, but they will still use sources to support their argument. What to watch out for is sources that have extreme bias. These sources are overtly one-sided, lack factual information or provide little to no evidence to back up their arguments.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1407\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1407\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/04\/approved-160121_1280-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"281\" class=\"wp-image-1407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/04\/approved-160121_1280-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/04\/approved-160121_1280-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/04\/approved-160121_1280-768x766.png 768w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/04\/approved-160121_1280-1024x1021.png 1024w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/04\/approved-160121_1280-65x65.png 65w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/04\/approved-160121_1280-225x224.png 225w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/04\/approved-160121_1280-350x349.png 350w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/04\/approved-160121_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Pixabay.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"menu_order":5,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-752","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":742,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2006,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/752\/revisions\/2006"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/742"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/752\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}