Evaluating a Scholarly Article

This assignment demonstrates how to evaluate a scholarly article using the CRAAP (Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose) criteria. The article chosen focuses on the topic 'Rise in globalism doesn’t mean the end of nationalists' and is analyzed based on its publication date, relevance to contemporary issues, author credibility, factual accuracy, and intended purpose. The evaluation highlights the importance of critically assessing sources before using information from them.

Source evaluation

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Source evaluation
Source evaluation or evaluating a source is a process of conducting research on a specific
source from which information is obtained. A scholarly article is selected as a source with the
topic of "Rise in globalism doesn’t mean the end of nationalists" which is evaluated. CRAAP
criteria is the method by which this task can be performed (Stronge and Tucker, 2017). Using
this criteria, source of this article is analysed below using elements of CRAAP:
Currency - From the selected article it has been ascertained that the content which is
written in this article is not up to date as the information is published on 10 August, 2017 8.59pm
EDT. Information which has completed its one year of publishing is not considered as up to date.
Relevance - This scholarly article is based on the issue of misconception of current
economy that rise of globalism will result in end of nationalists. This topic is highly relevant to
the contemporary themes as this issue is also considered as a contemporary problem.
Authority - By researching about this article it has been identified that author of this
content is A. Burcu Bayram who is associated with University of Arkansas. This source is
observed to be reliable as this article and its content is published under a copyright of The
Conversation US, Inc. By investigating about the content and the newspaper, it is determined
that this source is reliable as they have 75,400 academics and researchers from 2,599 institutions
as their readers and writers.
Accuracy - Claims under this article are supported by reliable numeric information
which is quantitative data. This data is acquired from World Values Survey.
Purpose - Author has a optimistic personality due to which writer has positive thoughts
and feelings about this article. By using emotional language, writer intends to provide a positive
feelings to its readers. This article is written with the objective of developing an understanding
about contemporary issue of is rise of globalism will result in end of nationalists (Romero-Güiza
and et. al., 2015).
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Romero-Güiza, M. S. and et. al., 2015. Feasibility of coupling anaerobic digestion and struvite
precipitation in the same reactor: evaluation of different magnesium sources. Chemical
Engineering Journal. 270. pp.542-548.
Stronge, J. and Tucker, P., 2017. Handbook on Teacher Evaluation with CD-ROM. Routledge.
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