Evaluating Sources
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.
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.
