Evaluating Books Worksheet

The following criteria and questions can help you to judge the value of a source.Instructions: Use the book you have found on our class topic in the Mohammed VI Library.

Answer the following questions in order to assess the credibility of your chosen source; you may find the answers by checking through the appropriate parts of the book, or you may need to do some additional research:

1. First, write the full reference here:

Randall McClellan. 1991. The healing forces of music History, Theory, and practice. ToExcel an imprint of iUniverse.com, INC (USA).

2; Evaluate Authority: Who is the author of this text? Do they have a degree or other expertise that qualifies them to write on the subject? What else has the author published?

Randall is a safety Supervisor at Major Drilling, he has traveled the United States to several offices to implement policies. He also wrote and directed programs for the company and investigated all accidents and incidents. Randall helped redevelop their Tower Rescue Procedures and Competent Climbing Procedures under the direction of Bob Rogers (National Safety Director). He is also certified OSHA Outreach Instructor, MSHA Instructor, FA/CPR Instructor, High Angle Rescue Instructor, and Confined Space Rescue Instructor

3. Evaluate Affiliation: What institution (company, organization, university, etc.) published this book? Is it a commercial or non-profit publisher? What else does the institution publish? Would the author's affiliation with this publisher bias their work?

The book was published by toExcel an imprint of iUniverse.com INC.

4. Evaluate Currency: When was the book published and/or last updated? Will you use it for current information or for historical context?

The book was published in 1991. I will be using that book to get more information about my topic and try to see the different sides of the subject.

5. Evaluate Audience: Who is the intended audience (students, educators, the general public, experts) for the book? Is it written for someone with a small or large amount of knowledge on the subject?

The audience of this book is every one since as far I a read on the book I didn’t find any scientific terms or any specialised words.

6. Evaluate Purpose: What appears to be the purpose for the book? Is it to inform, persuade, entertain, report, or refute?

The purpose of the book is to inform and demonstrate the divers healing forces of music.

7. Evaluate Sources: Where did the author get their information? Is there a bibliography? Are there footnotes? Does the author refer to primary or secondary material?

the authors used a large bibliography which clearly shows that the authors is well informed about the topic and that before writing this book he made a great research work.

8. Conclusion: Now that you have assessed your book in more detail, do you still think it is useful? Explain why or why not. If you do intend to use it, name the chapters or sections that you think will be most useful for your topic.

well actually I have chosen four books from the library still didn’t read all the chapters that I judged useful but until now I can say that the healing forces of music would be very useful in my research and the principles of healing with sound (chapter 4), I will also use the third part of chapter eleven which talks about the application of music for therapeutic purposes, in addition the many others like chapter ten, twelve, thirteen, etc