Research Summative Assessment Graphic

Organizer
Name:_________________________
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Date _____________

Period

Topic

Part I: Text Feature

Select a website, blog, online newspaper related to your topic. List two text features you
see.
Title of source__________________________________________
url: ________________________________________________________________________________
Text Feature #1

What do you now know about the article after

looking at this text feature?

Text Feature #2

What do you now know about the article after

looking at this text feature?

Part II: Reliability

Find one unreliable and one reliable source on your topic. One source may be the same
one used for the text feature portion

RELIABLE SOURCE

Title of the Source__________________________________________

UNRELIABLE
SOURCE
What type of source is it? ___________________________________________
Title of the Source__________________________________________
url:____________________________________________________________________________________
What type of source is it? ___________________________________________
url:____________________________________________________________________________________
What
characteristic of reliable sources do you see? (Circle what you find, cross off what
you do not find)
What characteristic of reliable sources do you see? (Circle what you find, cross off what
you do not find) Accuracy
Authority
Objectivity
Timeliness
Why is this source Accuracy
Authority
UNRELIABLE? Objectivity
Timeliness
_________________________________________________________________________________________
Why is this source UNRELIABLE?
_________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________

Part III: Fact Finding

Using your reliable source from Part II. Find three facts, quotes, or pieces of information about your
topic. Write the title of the source (name of the article, webpage, etc.) Record the type of source
(webpage, online newspaper, online magazine, blog, video, ebook). Write the URL

Title of the Source__________________________________________

What type of source is it? ___________________________________________
url:____________________________________________________________________________________
Fact or quote #1

Fact or quote #2

Fact or quote #3