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Here you will find information literacy content for use in courses or assignments. Concepts such as research, evaluating sources, citation, and library navigation are covered.

How to Identify Present & Absent Voices

The infographic below explores some of the questions you can ask of a source in order to identify whose voices are present and whose are absent.

a speech bubble made of yellow note cards with an ellipsis in the center

Photo by Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash

Identifying Present & Absent Voices

In this section you will find information on how to:

  • define present and absent voices
  • identify present and absent voices in various types of sources
  • practice evaluating a source based on which perspectives are included

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Present and Absent Voices in Research

The video below discusses how to identify present and absent voices in research as well as why some voices may be underrepresented.