Touchstone 2.1: Evaluate a SourceASSIGNMENT:For this essay, you will select one of the sources you...

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Touchstone 2.1: Evaluate a SourceASSIGNMENT:For this essay, you will select one of the sources you have found through your preliminary research about your research topic. Which source you choose is up to you; however, it should be substantial enough that you will be able to talk about it at length, and intricate enough that it will keep you (and your reader) interested.In order to foster learning and growth, all essays you submit must be newly written specifically for this course. Any recycled work will be sent back with a 0, and you will be given one attempt to redo the Touchstone.The introduction of this paper will involve introducing the source: Provide the author, the title, and the context (where you found the source, where it was originally published, who sponsored it, etc.)You will then go on to evaluate the source on two levels:	Credibility:Using the information in this unit as a guide, evaluate the source’s authenticity and reliability. Look at all the information that you can find about the source to establish the author’s (or sponsor’s) trustworthiness.	Usefulness:Using a combination of summary and analysis, examine the source on a critical level. Determine what the source’s purpose (thesis) is, and how it arrives at that goal. Examine its value to you and the project you are working on. How will it help you prove your own points? How might it come in handy to back up a claim (or address a counter-claim)?Finally, you will include a conclusion which shows your final assessments on both counts.

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Running Head: Evaluating Source		
Evaluating Source		4
EVALUATING SOURCE
Table of Contents
Introduction	3
Credibility and Usefulness of the Research Papers	3
Conclusion	5
References	6
Introduction
The research papers that have been extensively considered for the research is Retrospective cross sectional analysis of the changes in the marijuana used in USA from 2005 to 2018 by William Mitchell, Roma Bhatia and Nazli Zebardast. The second research paper is; Vaping cannabis among adolescents: prevalence and associations with tobacco use from a cross-sectional study in the USA. Saran D Kowitt, Amira Osman, Clare Meernik, Gary A Zarkin, Leah M Ranney, Jim Martin, Coutney Heck and Adam O Goldstein present this paper. National Cancer Institute, FDA Centre for Tobacco Products and Centre sponsored the research for Disease Control and Prevention. Both the papers are published in British Medical Journal, which are a pioneer publisher and champion of open access research.
Credibility of the Research Papers
Both the research papers are very recently developed and provided significant information and data pertaining to the study of the trends of marijuana use in the USA, owing to the fact of high rates of adoption of marijuana legalization laws. The data used for the research was from the databases of National Health and Nutrition Examinations survey, which are publicly available. It is worth mentioning that the databases are standardized and represents accurate representation of the entire population of USA (Mitchell, Bhatia & Zebardast, 2020). 
Usefulness of the Research Papers 
Cross-sectional analysis of the changes in the trends of the use of marijuana presents distinctive information,

Touchstone 2.1: Evaluate a Source ASSIGNMENT:For this essay, you will select one of the sources you have found through your preliminary research about your research topic. Which source you choose is...

Touchstone 2.1: Evaluate a Source

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