Activity: Evaluate More Relevant Sources

The Business Insider video about MSG shed a light on the topic and may have intensified your interest in the complicated history of MSG. Next, you search for related articles using databases found on the library website. 

Remember that when you are doing research, you get to decide whose perspectives to include in your assignment. If we think of research and the exchange of scholarship as a conversation, you are facilitating a conversation in your assignment. You get to decide whose perspectives and voices are important enough to bring in. 

Considering this, let's imagine that you still want to use the Instagram source you came across initially so you include the Noodle PhD post on MSG and racism Links to an external site. for your list of sources, and then you add three more:

• A PubMed article: Monosodium Glutamate 'Allergy': Menace or Myth? Links to an external site.
• A Food Studies article: A Short History of MSG: Good Science, Bad Science, and Taste Cultures  Links to an external site.
  
• A New York Times article: Yes, MSG, the Secret Behind the Savor  Links to an external site.

But, before you decide to use these sources for your research paper,  you need to evaluate them and make sure they're suitable for your needs. Click next.