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While doing research for a paper, you are able to find one article that you think is trustworthy. According to SIFT, after investigating the article, what should you do next?

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While doing research for a paper, you are able to find one article that you think is trustworthy. According to SIFT, after investigating the article, you should next, look for more and better articles about this topic published in other sources.

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Answer:

Find better coverage

Step-by-step explanation:

SIFT is acronym developed by an american evaluator Mike Caufield, that describes 4 steps used to evaluate a source of information.

1. Stop.

2.Investigate the source

3. Find better coverage

4. Track it back.

So, after investigating comes find better coverage, which means before consuming the article check to see how the topic has been covered elsewhere. Do the other source provide better information?

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