Evaluating Information

Peter Carino says Irene Clark's belief in the necessity of discerning "the relative merit of one source over another" (qtd. 307) has important implications for tutors, who should model more than one "correct" method of researching. Carino says the ability to evaluate sources will "become crucial with the availability of unregulated internet sources of information" (507). I agree, but this task becomes more complicated each day and we can't always assume the tutors--and even instructors--have all the answers. The Internet is so chaotic and the sources of information--not all of it legitimate--expanding so quickly, that it's difficult for anyone to negotiate it all, much less be able to accurately evaluate it all. The danger of not being able to evaluate it all is what makes it so important to keep working at it.