1. Evaluating Information
Reading Seminar

2. *Definition*
Making judgments and forming opinions about what you’ve read before your reading, during, and after you’ve finished. Develop your own ideas about characters/people and events.
A good reader evaluates the information an author gives him or her.

3. *How to Evaluate*
When reading, listening, or viewing, first, look to see if information is provable or not provable before you form your opinions, make judgments, and create ideas.
Provable= FACT
Not Provable= OPINION
Determine what’s below:
There are lions in the zoo.
The lake is forty feet deep.
Mr. Hence is awesome.
Jalapenos are too spicy.

4. *How to Evaluate* Understand the purpose of the author/speaker/writer
The 3 different types of purposes are:
To Entertain
Make you laugh, cry, think, or feel a certain way.
To Persuade
Convinces you of something.
To Inform
Tell you facts and ideas.

5. *When to Evaluate* Political speeches or articles
T.V. commercials persuading you to buy a product
Telemarketers
Biographies
Let’s discuss which ones are meant to persuade, entertain, or inform. Maybe some use all three purposes.

6. *Summary*
Evaluating Information is making judgments, forming opinions, and developing ideas about what you’re reading before, during, and after reading.
This will help you to determine what you believe to be authentic and valuable information that you might either like or dislike, and it will also give you a richer understanding of an author’s purpose for providing the information that he/she did.