Health Weight Loss: Source Evaluation By We Don’t Care

Source 1: Book Body By Science: A Research Based Program to Get the Results You Want in 12 Minutes a Week Purpose: to teach Publisher: McGraw-Hill professional Publishes textbooks for students in many fields Published in 2009 so it is up to date Authors: Doug McGuff M.D. and John R Little McGuff has written several books and articles on exercise and fitness Little is an author of several bodybuilding and martial arts books and numerous magazine in the subject

Book cont. Coverage: Audience: Bibliography: Usefulness: Covers weight loss and fitness in a comprehensive way Audience: Range from the general public to fitness professionals and students doing research Bibliography: Literature is cited on a chapter basis Usefulness: The book would be useful in a research project Found in the e-book collection on the EBSCO host database

Source 2: website www.helpguide.com Got it from the internet It is a good source Not bias Articles written by PHDs and other professionals Has copyright information Up to date And reviewed by formal publication

Website cont. Not for profit Sole purpose of helping people Has collaborated with organizations such as Harvard. Not really a bibliography but does state authors for each article Good source to use in conjunction with other sources

Source 3: Article Weight Loss 101: A Healthy Weight Loss Program for College Students Published in the American Journal of Health Studies Peer Review, Scholarly Journal Published in 2001 might be a little out of date The Material is organized into clear sections Material might be bias

Article cont. Does have a comprehensive reference section Authors have PHDs and are all professors The article covered the topic mostly Good for source evaluation The audience is for Students, specialists in a profession and scholars Illustration such as tables are well organized Might be useful even if it is out of date a bit