One of the main ways to figure out if a source is credible is to look at who is writing it. Are they bias (i.e. is a neo-Nazi writing about Hitler? Not a good source)? Are the credible (i.e. is it written by a professor or some Joe off the street)? Where did you find the source (nine times out of ten if it is the library it is find)? Usually books are find, Magazines are find (if you know the magazine), Internet not so good ( you don’t know who really wrote it) For true trustworthy sources, do not look to Wikipedia. It should only be used a reference for yourself as a jumping off point for you to research more. Do not cite Wikipedia.

Ahaha, this is a terrible question – we had to study all about it in Modern History ..but sadly I’ve forgotten most of it.

Here’s what I remember. Credibility of a source relies on:

* What was the time period it was written in (bcoz the story may have changed over time – the older it is the less reliable .. i think – u might need other sources to back it up.

* What is the nature of the source? First hand or secondary source – first hand is more credible

* Is the source corroborated by other sources? -> Do other sources say the same/similar thing to your source (backs it up if more people have said the same thing) to confirm that your source was credible

* Is the source bias? – Is it one sided or does it represent both side fairly accurately?

* What was the purpose or intent of the source? – was it written to entertain, educate etc.. A source may be changed in order to suit the purpose intended. E.G – If it was written for entertainment purposes then the content of that source may not all be factual and might contain traces of fabrication in order to “entertain” its audience.

.. dude, i don’t know if this was exactly what you were looking for, but I did my best – Good luck

The best research sources are called primary sources. These include eyewitness accounts, naratives that were written at the time of the event, documents that are contemporary with the event, photographs, or anything else that has not passed through the filter of an historian’s perception and/or interpretation. Secondary sources include research by creditable writers or historians.The reputation of the historian or researcher is important in establishing the trustworthiness of his or her work.

You should ask what the researcher’s motivation was in writing .

if you start at the ocean and follow the river to the source, it’s probably the correct one … of course, in my own experience, eternal storyboard dragons and eternal ‘whispering’ flora comets cannot always discern the location of first street except to say: ‘it’s somewhere near second street’ … … … i suppose it mite make since to add that the only truely credible source is the one that puts a little more than just 300 million faces on 300 million dollar bills, and the closest i’ve seen would be the good dragon earth who minted around 7 billion people on about 7 billion flesh notes and tacked on alot more than just a face (there were others minted, but some are temporarily out of circulation) … … i had a real epiphany today and sense i ammended my answer hear for sum reason, i figure i’ll mention the big awesome thing that happened: it’s all about sources, coincidentally … the sky was mostly cloudy … light, high clouds … but there was a tiny slit in the cloud cover with blue sky shining through … it looked like a giant dragon with an eye just slightly cracked open … i’ve seen many dragons in my dreams and even enormous ones … but this was different, this was the closest to truely huge and truely real time i’ve ever felt a dragon … that was more than awesome enough … but minutes later, something else occured to me … as a child, about age 10, some kid at school was ranting and raving about ****** this and ****** that, and it occured to me that ******* were the next huge champs of the world … that there was no stopping them as long as such dolts carried on so creepily … but today, just after the ‘dragon sighting’ the best dragon sighting ever for me, it occured to me that for over two hundred thousand years there has been another true champ plotting quietly in some unseen corner … and after so many eternities of dolts carrying on girls this and girls that, they are truely the unshakable champs of forever … it was big for me, i haven’t registered yet how big … it’s so big i can’t feel how big yet, like those occasional winter nites so cold you can’t even feel the cold

Th er is no one thing that can be used . You need to look at a number of factors. it is good that you want trustworthiness . That is the way to go.

The following source presents a number of different factors. Copy and past the link into your browser.

http://www.sou.edu/library/searchtools/evaluate.html

I look at the contact information to make sure it’s a reliable company/organization. Then I compare that source to other ones and if one sticks out as being wrong…then that source isn’t reliable.

I’ll answer this once you answer my question: What makes you think the answers given on this website are trustworthy or credible?

Answer that and you’ll be closer to your own answer.