
Unit 6: Relevance
Information such as an article or website is relevant if it is useful for your assignment. You can judge if a reference is relevant by checking:
- the number of times your keywords appear in the abstract or article
- the language used - this can indicate the intended audience for the article, for example, is it aimed at members of the public, students or academic researchers?
- whether the information is comprehensive
- whether the reference complements or contradicts your own knowledge or information you may have found elsewhere.
If the information you have found does not meet your needs, you will need to refine your search.
Activity
Visit each website below. Each website contains information on cloning. Consider:
- Who is the intended audience
- How much information is provided
- Is the language natural or emotive?
Take notes and evaluate each website for how useful it would be for an essay on the types of cloning.
- Cloning fact sheet - http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/cloning.shtml
- How cloning works - http://www.howstuffworks.com/cloning.htm
- Cloning information from theRoyal Society - http://royalsociety.org/News.aspx?id=1203&terms=cloning&fragment=&SearchType=&terms=cloning
- Books on cloning - http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1840463805/
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