Used in a sentence: "In case you didn't go to school in these modern times, let me introduce you to something the kiddies are apparently learning: the CRAAP model for evaluating your sources."
When *I* was young (and walked uphill to school BOTH ways, barefoot and pregnant), we learned about Strunk and White's 'Elements of Style' in high school ... and about various citation styles in college.
Modern life being what modern life is, apparently the young folk need to learn about how to approach the interwebs in a scholarly manner, and so the CRAAP model was created. With a focus on making sure that which you find in a google search has "Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy and Purpose", the analysis provides a rubrik for kids nowadays to have a way to be extra careful about referencing just any old thing they find on the world wide web.
To that end, and in hopes that fewer of my Facebook connections might end up as Russian pawns, I encourage all y'all to consider CRAAPing yourself next time BEFORE you post/repost/share/comment/etc.
THIS STORY WAS FROM NINE YEARS AGO, SO IT'S 58 NOW!:
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103140512
THAT WHICH I LEARNED IN COLLEGE:
https://ctl.yale.edu/writing/using-sources/why-are-there-different-citation-styles
HEY -- YOU! -- CUT THE CRAAP!:
http://researchguides.ben.edu/c.php?g=261612&p=2441794
