Evaluating Sources
The source that I chose to evaluate is an article out of The World Book Encyclopedia. This article deals with Martin Luther King Jr. and is titled, "King, Martin Luther, Jr." The article talks about King's early life, the civil rights movement, his later years, and his death. It also talks about all of the goals that King had for the civil rights movement. The article contains parts of the famous "I Have a Dream" speech which was given by King. In the speech, King says "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character" (322). What King is saying that he wants his African American children to be treated just as equally as white children. He is saying that his children are not any different than the white children because everyone is the same when you take a look at the inside. Also in his speech, King says that African Americans should be praying together, and doing whatever it takes to gain their freedom, even if it means that they might go to jail while fighting for it. He says that if they stand up and fight it together, that one day very single one of them will eventually ga
This source is clearly authoritative. Even when new information does come about, the article is still usually not rewritten. Troyka said that any book published by a university press or anyone who publishes a scholarly book is also trustworthy (533). This is because the death of James Earl Ray did not occur until after this article was written. Garrow does a good job of putting the information in chronological order. I know that two of the sources he used are reliable because I am familiar with them. Also, I think that any information that comes from an encyclopedia is authoritative. The other was published by the University of Illinois Press. One of them was published by Harper and Row publishers. It probably wasn't written very long after 1983. According to Troyka, any type of textbook, academic journal, or encyclopedia is authoritative (533). This article was not dated, but it contains dates in the content of the information. When he inserts the "I Have A Dream" speech into the article, he does not put the whole speech in.
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