By Monday, find a primary source for details on the value of college. This must be research, a survey, or a study conducted to arrive at conclusions that relate to the argument about the value of a college education. For this assignment you must:
- Find a primary source of information about the value of college (a primary source is the original source of information, or the group responsible for the original research, survey, or study).
- Decide whether or not the source is credible (believable) based on the following
- What kind of research does the group usually do? Does their history suggest a bias?
- Who paid for the study? Is it a group that would benefit from a certain kind of results?
- How large and diverse was the population involved? Were only a small group of people from a specific background considered or was there a large group of a variety of backgrounds?
- Is this source being cited by people or groups that are credible?
- Summarize the details of the research that you feel most apply to how valuable college is. Be sure to include the title, the authors (and/or group responsible), the publisher, and the year it was released.
Suggestions: Looking up articles on newspapers or even wikipedia is a great place to start! From here, figure out where their information originally came from and go there for the original source information.