academic vs non academic sources

• a professor from a university stating large stock of cattle is bad for the environment is most likely more accurate then the farmer who has shares in cattle company’s

• the more academic sources the better your claim     

• the diff between academic and non academic sources is that if the source has gone through peer review

• what is peer review?; when experts in the field read have read over the work or manuscript and has affirmed the information     

• what can make a source even better?": if the peer reviewing is double blind; when the reviewer doesn’t know who the author is and vice versa. what about single blind?; when only the reviewers don’t know the author but vice versa does not apply

• if it says university in name of publisher it is most likely an academic source           

• if commercial press, most likely non academic. if self published or no publisher then it is 100% not an academic source     

• check publishers website to see if peer reviewed

• gov reports, ngos, and community reports are not an academic source bc it has not gone through peer review. this does not mean its bad info or should be ignored

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