Shauna has collected a variety of sources for her research about Charlie Chaplin’s impact on American cinema. In performing her preliminary evaluation of each source, Shauna should

A preliminary evaluation is a quick first check to judge whether a source is credible, including checking the author’s qualifications or reliability. Thoroughly examining the content comes later, after this initial screening. Therefore, Shauna should perform a quick search to determine the author’s reliability.

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