Create a list of several questions of your own, or from the text that are examples of things a researcher should ask when determining if a source is genuine and accurate. Provide a way that the researcher could answer that question

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Researchers undergoing internal criticism must attempt to decipher the intent of a written work. This means that the researcher must question what the words mean, and why the author chose those words. Examples of questions the researcher could ask are:
• What was the author trying to say?
• What was the author's motive for making the statement or creating the document?
• What inferences are offered in the statement by the author?
• What references are included? Does the language invoke other works that would be known to readers of the time?
• Are the author's statements accurate?
• Was the sentiment of the author similar or contrary to the one of the time period?
• Was the statement or document supposed to provide moral lessons?
The researcher will verify the patterns that emerge during internal and external criticism when the researcher completes the content analysis of the data collected. Research questions are explained, supported, or refuted by a collection of sources. The analysis and synthesis of the data allows the researcher to take the original literature, and infuse it with the author's own observations. The narrative account of the resulting patterns, connections, and insights uncovered during the process of the research can involve the internal and external criticism of the data, and the content analysis.