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Utility questions

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Source D An African-American secretary standing and taking notes at a meeting

When answering utility questions it is important to remember that none of the sources you are being asked to compare is ‘not useful’ or ‘useless’. There will always be an aspect of the content of the source, or its provenance, that you should be able to identify as useful to an extent.

When describing one source as more useful than another it is vital that you support the statements you make. Relevant comments on reliability will be credited, but long discussions on reliability unrelated to the question or assertions that a source is or is not useful based simply on reliability will not be.

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