The Credible Sources of Information - Assignment Example

The first source selected for the topic of PowerPoint is an article by İlknur Şentürk and Selahattin Turan. It is titled 'Foucault’un İktidar Analizi Bağlamında Eğitim Yönetimine İlişkin Bir Değerlendirme', and it was published in the journal 'Educational Administration: Theory and Practice' in 2012. This journal is published quarterly as a peer-reviewed journal. It is sponsored by the Pegem Akademi Yayıncılık Eğitim Danışmanlık Hizmetleri Tic. Ltd., located in Ankara, Turkey.

Its stated aim is “to serve the needs of researchers and experts in educational sciences and specifically in educational administration, policy, planning, supervision and economics of education” (Eğitim Yönetimine, 2012). The source is therefore credible. The second source selected for the topic of Social Media is an article by Rebecca Walker Naylor, Cait Poynor Lamberton, and Patricia M. West. It is titled 'Beyond the "Like" Button: The Impact of Mere Virtual Presence on Brand Evaluations and Purchase Intentions in Social Media Settings', and it was published in the 'Journal of Marketing' in 2012.

This source is credible because the journal is long established (for more than 7 decades); it is stated to be a recognized leader in the field, and it is a “premier, broad-based, scholarly journal of the marketing discipline that focuses on substantive issues in marketing and marketing management” (AMA, 2012). The third source selected for the topic of Work Shop is an article by Haiyan Huang and Zheng Wang. It is titled 'Solving coupled task assignment and capacity planning problems for a job shop by using a concurrent genetic algorithm', and it was published in the 'International Journal of Production Research' in 2010.

This journal is published for researchers around the world interested in production systems and processes (IFPR, 2012). The organization behind it is The International Foundation for Production Research (IFPR), which has been holding conferences every two years since 1971, and which was founded by a former head of the Production Engineering Department at the University of Birmingham in England. The source is therefore credible.