Why do we need good quality evidence?

As a student, you will want to have access to the best quality evidence to support arguments and positions that you want to make in your assessment. The breadth and depth of evidence available online is staggering and it can become very difficult to discern the good from the bad. It can be even more difficult to demonstrate to your tutor or the reader of your assessments (who may not be the same person) that the evidence you present has come from a good quality source.

Most of us turn to the internet for information on anything from recipes to bus and train timetables and for this sort of thing, the internet is fine. However, as a student, you will want information from credible sources. It is important to understand that there are good quality sources of evidence and poor quality sources of evidence out there and we need to make a choice about what is good quality and what is poor. This is a skill that you will hone during your course of study.