Social Science Essay: Importance and Impact of Credible Sources

This essay emphasizes the importance of credible sources for tertiary learners, particularly in the field of social science. It highlights how relying on valid and reliable information is essential for students to develop a profound understanding of concepts, maintain the validity of their work, and avoid misinformation prevalent on the internet. The essay further discusses the impact of credible sources on professional practice, especially for aspiring teachers, and underscores how a strong understanding of concepts enhances their reputation and effectiveness. The author shares personal experiences from their dissertation on organizational processes and performance appraisal systems, illustrating the differences between credible and non-credible sources, and emphasizing the value of scholarly articles and journals. The essay concludes by highlighting the significance of credible sources in achieving academic success and earning appreciation.

Running head: SOCIAL SCIENCE
Social Science
Name of the University:
Name of the Student:
Author Note:

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Importance of Credible Sources for a tertiary learner.
Finding relevant and quality sources for a research process is important, especially for a
student who is a tertiary learner and therefore one must find the credible sources to complete
a research process. Credibility sources refer to the quality information that are valid and
reliable and provide information that are true (Hyland. 2014). It is essential because the
audience or the readers expect the papers to have based upon reliable sources that will
provide proper evidences and therefore they can believe in it. Moreover, in case of research
processes, the students need to provide a systematic understanding of the concepts that is a
proper definition, meaning and profound understanding. Now, the anonymous sources cannot
be relied upon for such information. Therefore, a tertiary learner must rely upon authentic
sources to provide the proper understanding of the concepts to the readers and to maintain the
validity if their work (Cumming. Lai and Cho. 2016). Today, the internet is full of false data
and blogs. Since anybody can write and express their opinions of any concept over this
platform, many a times it is found that the meaning of a concept are broken and customized
or modified. Therefore, the true understanding of a concept is missing and the people are
often misled and misguided by these cheap knowledge and thus, the authenticity and true
sense is lost (Rowley and Johnson. 2013). Hence, students or the tertiary learners must
incorporate information from the scholarly articles or journals or books where they would get
a detailed knowledge on any concept. Moreover, following the credible sources are important
for the students. As they are the new learners, they must have a proper understanding of the
readings that they are doing and the concepts regarding any topic or issue must be clear
enough so that they never get misguided by the wrong information and improve their outlook
and understanding (Gillett. Hammond and Martala. 2013).

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Impact of Credible Sources on professional practice.
Using credible sources or practicing evidence based research is not only important to have a
profound understanding of a concept but it also helps in the practical field or in the
professional sector. This essentially refers to the scientific understanding or theoretical
understanding of a topic or issue (Gray et al. 2013). This is important for people involved in
any kind of profession. But it is extremely true for people with an aspiration of becoming a
teacher. Since, the job of a teacher is to provide authentic information and first-hand
knowledge with grave understanding of the concepts, it is important for them to have such
understanding by themselves, otherwise, it will be difficult for them to deliver and will harm
their reputation as well since, the students will be frustrated with cheap knowledge.
Moreover, with lack of proper understanding, if the teachers are posed with a question
regarding a topic, first, they will fail to comprehend the question, and secondly, they cannot
provide the required to their students who, then can pose question on their knowledge and
this is definitely not good for the reputation of the teachers (Young et al. 2014). Further, a
good understanding among the teachers, earn them the reputation of “good teacher” who have
responsibility for their students and can create aspirations among the students and
significantly effect on their knowledge and character building. Students get inspired by the
teachers and rely on them for better prospect (Ubbink, Guyatt and Vermeulen. 2013).
Moreover, there are many instances where good and studious students challenge their
teachers and invite them for debates. Now, if the teacher fail to deliver the potential which is
required then that becomes not only insulting but demoralising as well for the teacher.
Therefore, to maintain the position, proper understanding by the teachers are very important.
It also makes one confident and elegant and this is true for all kinds of professions.

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Future prospects.
I have realised the importance and significance of credible sources while doing my
dissertation. I had undertaken a dissertation on the organizational processes and the
performance appraisal system in the corporate sectors. While undergoing with the study, I
had come across many websites, PDFs, journals, articles and books and as I was going
through them I could easily distinguish between the qualities of the contents and understand
the significance of the credible sources. Here, I am attaching two website links that I had
viewed for my research.
https://www.peopleccg.com/business-and-management-blog/Appraisal_Methods/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-012-1615-9
If one goes through these two articles, he or she will understand the differences in the
contents of the two materials. The first link provided, is of an anonymous website with a very
generic view of the whole process and lacks the proper definitions and understandings.
Moreover, the language of the material is also very poor. It is written mostly in layman terms
and some of the information are very vague and does not have any logic and not evidenced
enough. However, on the other hand, the other link, that I have provided, gives a proper
understanding of the concepts. The work has proper definitions of organisational systems and
performance appraisal processes. It also provides other studies that have been done
previously in the related areas. It also provides other definitions of the related terms and
related concepts. It includes definitions and mentions of the works done by the classical
workers and has a profound base of theoretical understanding which has made the work even
more rich and relative and significant. Moreover, it is based on a comparative analysis and
evaluative approach that helped me to better my knowledge regarding the issue and improved

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my work. Along with an amazing grade, the task earned me appreciation from my teachers
which was more valuable to me and my work proved to be the best in the class.
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