The acronym CCRAP stands for:
C – Currency – When was the source last updated? Is it timely, current, dated?
C – Coverage – How deeply does it cover the research topic?
R – Relevance/Reliability – Why might I use (or not use) this source?
A – Authority – Is the author qualified to discuss the topic?
P – Perspective – What is the purpose of this source?
To start off, here is a link to a brief tutorial about evaluating websites:
Here are links to the websites that you will be evaluating:
1. Article from KidsHealth on smallpox
2. Canada’s First Peoples: Contact and Conflict
3. The First Smallpox Epidemic on the Canadian Plains: In the Fur Traders Words
4. Smallpox: A Great and Terrible Scourge
6. Smallpox article from Wikipedia
7. Vancouver Sun article: First Nations of the Fraser
9. Extermination! Evidence of Biological Warfare Against Native Americans
10. How Did We Kill Smallpox
Other sites (please do not use these for Mr. Jakoy’s class April 2015):
Bridge Between Nations (pdf): a History of First Nations in the Fraser River Basin
Canada’s First Nations: European Contact (from University of Calgary)
First Nations – Saskatchewan Geneology Roots
Smallpox and its Control in Canada
Semiahmoo First Nation article from Wikipedia
Smallpox Disease Overview from the Center for Disease Control
For more information about Annotated Bibliographies, please go to How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography from the Olin & Uris Libraries at Cornell University. This is the site you were shown in class on Friday, May 31.