This paper argues that information containers provide valuable context clues that can help students make choices about how to engage with information content. The authors present a strategic approach to source evaluation rooted in format and authority threshold concepts.,The authors developed a source evaluation strategy with the objective of deciding whether to trust an information source. This strategy involves a set of cues to help readers mindfully engage with both the container and content of a given source.,When conducting research, non-experts are asked to evaluate content in the absence of relevant subject expertise. The cues presented in this paper offer practical tactics informed by the concepts of authority (to help make an accessible judgment of intellectual trust) and format (to help make more informed decisions about the content they find in a browser).,While librarians have produced many evaluative models and checklists to help students evaluate information, this paper contributes a unique strategic approach grounded in two information literacy threshold concepts – format and authority – and enacted through a series of actions drawn from website evaluation models, fact-checking, and metacognitive exercises.

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战略性源评估：解决容器难题

本文认为，信息容器提供了有价值的上下文线索，可以帮助学生选择如何与信息内容互动。作者提出了一种基于格式和权限阈值概念的源评估策略方法。作者开发了一种源评估策略，目的是确定是否信任信息源。此策略涉及一组提示，以帮助读者专心地处理给定来源的容器和内容。在进行研究时，要求非专家在缺乏相关专业知识的情况下评估内容。