Evaluating Sources
An important step in evaluating a resource is determining if it is considered scholarly. This distinction will need to be made for books, as well as articles.
BEAM is an acronym intended to help students think about the various ways we might use sources when writing a researched argument. Joseph Bizup, an English professor at Boston University, outlined the framework in a 2008 article. The idea has since been refined and adapted by many others.
