Scholar article
1.
The authors are from the Hong Kong Baptist
University and the City University of Hong Kong. The authors are not well known, I believe
them to be students writing for completion of their program.
2.
The publisher is Emerald Group Publishing Limited. This article was published as a peer-reviewed
research paper. The audience could be
anyone interested in the dynamics and trends of the hiring process and the
effects of personality. They publish
books, journals, and news so they have a wide band of experience, letting me
trust their published content. This
paper was published in 2004. The source
doesn’t include contact information but it does include enough to find them if
you seek out the information.
3.
The purpose of this text is to inform the reader
of the research they conducted and show their results. They used many other sources to create their
work, citing them throughout. This makes
it appear more credible. Their cited
sources appear to be mostly secondary.
From the samples I read of the source, it seemed very scientific to me
and I didn’t pick up on any bias. Since
this was written by students as a funded project, one might expect there to be
bias in favor of students with good academic performance. I found this source from Google scholar, and
it is hosted at a “.com” domain. This
information is not extremely current, being published in 2004.
4.
I don’t think this resource will be very helpful
to me, just considering what it focuses on.
It seems to be more about qualities that get you hired rather than what
makes you successful.
Google article
1.
The author does not hold a computer science
degree but he is successful in his field.
He works for Open Software Integrators and helps with the Open Source
Initiative. He writes other articles
about technology that are published online.
2.
The publisher is InfoWorld. They publish other online articles about
various technology topics and are seemingly focused on technology and business
related audiences. This specific article
is targeted towards those seeking or pondering a computer science degree and
possibly someone hiring new employees.
InfoWorld seems to have a professional layout and collection of articles
so it seems reputable to me. The
specific article was published on September 11, 2012. The site has a link to the author's Google account so he can be contacted.
3.
The author is trying to get you to see his point
that interest and skill are better to have than a college degree. He gives his background story and tells how
he did well without a degree in the field.
This article is a primary source, like a narrative. He is definitely biased towards his position
of not spending the time getting a degree.
This is definitely an expected bias however, as the title suggests. I found this article through a quick Google
search and it was the third result.
InfoWorld looks credible and professional to me and this article was
written from a professional’s standpoint. The site ends with “.com”, and
there are advertisements so they are making some money somehow off of this
content. This information is very
current and would be valuable to my research as it offers a primary perspective
on the topic.
4.
I will almost certainly be using this source in
my project as it offers a first-hand opinion from someone who does not have a
degree in his field. This account will
help my audience see that it is a possible track to take, but it probably
wouldn’t be enough to persuade someone.
This source will give credibility to one side of the argument in my
topic, so it will be valuable in that respect.
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