2.02Information Source Analysis

Student’s Name
Instructor’s Name
Course
Date
Information Source Analysis
Archer, Louise, and Merryn Hutchings. “‘Bettering Yourself’? Discourses of risk, cost and benefit
in ethnically diverse, young working-class non-participants’ constructions of higher education.” British Journal of Sociology of Education 21.4 (2000): 555-574.
Archer is a professor of Sociology of Education at the King’s College London, and Merryn is an Emeritus Professor at the London Metropolitan University. The two authors have done several research and authored many individual articles and books. Therefore, they have all the intellectual authority to discuss higher education. Moreover, they use numerous credible works from respected scholars in their properly organized piece to back their assertions. Concisely, this source is scholarly and one should have no reason to doubt the information in it.
Huber, Richard M. How Professors Play the Cat Guarding the Cream: Why We’re Paying More
and Getting Less in Higher Education. George Mason University Press, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030, 1992.
Huber Richard Miller got his Ph. D in American studies from the Yale University. He has also authored several books and edited more than 30. Further, Huber has been given numerous fellowships, awards, and honors for his writing and scholarship. Therefore, he is a highly competent writer and all his works are well researched. In addition to his education, experience, and accolades, he also makes use of credible references in this book and presents the information in an orderly fashion.

Therefore, the source is highly reputable.
Jayakumar, Uma. “Can higher education meet the needs of an increasingly diverse and global
society? Campus diversity and cross-cultural workforce competencies.” Harvard Educational Review 78.4 (2008): 615-651.
The source’s author is highly reputable. She is presently an associate professor at the University of California at Riverside. Her teaching and scholarship focus on tackling policy and racial justice issues in higher learning, with emphasis on how the environments of institutions such as campus and their culture shape the engagements of students and how they face or resist obstacles to all-encompassing engagement. The article was reviewed and published by the University of Michigan, and the author’s main aim is to shape policy. She references several reputable sources and presents the information in a logical manner. As such, this work is reliable.
Welch, Lauren. “What Education Do You Need To Become A Billionaire? (MSFT,
ORCL).” Investopedia, Investopedia, 16 Nov. 2018, www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/040515/what-education-do-you-need-become-billionaire.asp.
Welch is a Certified Financial Counselor and owns Thrive Financial Counseling. Given her professional and educational background, she is definitely a force to reckon in the business and financial sectors. Moreover, Investopedia, the website on which this piece is published, is a renowned business website that vets the information on its articles thoroughly before publishing them. Based on these, the source can be considered credible.

Workopolis. “What Did the World’s Top 10 Billionaires Study at University?” Workopolis Blog,
Workopolis Blog, 26 Apr. 2017, careers.workopolis.com/advice/what-did-the-worlds-top-ten-billionaires-study-at-university/.
Workopolis was started in 1999 to offer Canadians job services in both English and French. For more than 15 years, it has managed to link millions of Canadians to their dream jobs. As a result, the company and its staff have a lot of knowledge about the job industry. In this short article, the website offers information about the education background of some of the top billionaires around the globe. Even though the work has no reference list, it provides hyperlinks to sources that can be used to confirm some of the information that it gives. Given its long-standing presence in the job sector and the numerous links to sources that prove the information offered, the source is reliable.

Zuckerberg, Mark. Mark Zuckerberg. AV2 by Weigl, 2016.
The author of this work is both reputable and very famous. He is an American internet entrepreneur and computer programmer. He became a global sensation after starting the multi-billion dollar online company known as Facebook. The article talks about his life and is well structured from his early life and education to some of his accomplishments in adulthood. Even though the author talks about his life, he still uses several reputable sources to back some of the information that readers might think have been cooked up. Consequently, the article can be relied on in scholarly fields.