Identifying the intended audience for information is one step in evaluating sources.
Every publication and website has expectations of its target audience. The descriptions below can be applied to periodicals, books, web sites, social media, and any other source of content. Use these descriptions in your annotations.
Think about how much specialized knowledge of a topic the target audience is expected to have in order to understand the content.
Some basic groups are:
Academics can be considered as a special case of professional.
These categories identify the format of the publication / web site / source.
Some publications and websites fall into multiple categories.
Academic, Scholarly, Peer Reviewed |
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Industry /Trade / Professional Publications(sometimes referred to as "Professional") |
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Substantive News |
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Popular |
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Sensational |
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