Before you can evaluate, you need to know what kind of article you're dealing with. In the digital era this is trickier than you may think. This key detail will tell you a lot about the INFORMATION CREATION PROCESS.
How information is created, reviewed, produced, and then consumed (by you!) says a lot about its credibility. A tweet, for example, takes just seconds to publish and end up on your information plate. However, a scholarly journal article can take months - even years - to be studied, compiled, produced, peer-reviewed, edited, peer-reviewed again, and then published.
On the one hand - more review and vetting often means a more accurate, evidence-based article, on the other hand - you may need timely, cutting edge information that you won't find in a scholarly article. Your information need will dictate the source type you choose.
There is no one perfect source type. All individual sources have some sort of gap. The sources you choose should compliment eachother by filling in these gaps. Do you have a good book chapter supporting your thesis, but it's a little older? You should still use it, just make sure you have more current sources that fill in the gaps.
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