10th Grade Research Paper Website Evaluations

Evaluating Websites How can you tell if a website is reliable?

Evaluating Websites How can you tell if a website is unreliable?

Website Evaluations: WHO WHO wrote the pages? Do not use personal pages Is there an author named? Is there a biography of the author? Is the author an expert with credentials (education, experience)? http://www.mindful-writers.com/about/

Website Evaluations: WHO If there is no author, WHO is responsible for the website? Is there a publisher or sponsor? Does the publisher make sense? NIMH · Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Website Evaluations: WHO Do you think the author or publisher might have a bias? http://www.guncite.com/ Gun Control

Website Evaluations: WHAT WHAT is the goal of the site? Purposes could be to entertain, to support, to inform, to educate, to sell, to persuade http://www.malepregnancy.com/ WHAT audience is the site targeting? http://www.procon.org/aboutus.asp

Website Evaluations: WHAT What type of domain? .gov or .mil: government or military, the most reliable .edu: the next most reliable, sponsored by a school or college .org, .net, .com: the least reliable, these domains can be obtained by anyone http://martinlutherking.org/

Website Evaluations: WHAT Does the site include any obvious errors? Is the site a “work in progress”?

Website Evaluations: WHEN When was the site published or last updated? Euthanasia suicide mercy-killing right-to-die physician assisted suicide living wills research Are the links up to date? If you are concerned about the reliability of the site, check some links

For website sources, you MUST display URL

Website Evaluations: WHERE Does the author or publisher provide sources for their information? Gun Control Does the author explain where their information comes from? Do they look like good sources? ILLEGAL ALIENS / BORDER SECURITY

Assessing a Website You MUST include a Web Page Evaluation checklist for the websites you are using in your research paper… …or else it will NOT count as a source. TIP: Assess the website BEFORE you start taking notes, just in case it is not reliable. Work smart!!

Reminder: Website Sources Copy the url from the browser when you are on the webpage you are using Paste into easybib on the website tab REVIEW THIS INFORMATION and fill any additional information that is missing Look for the red bordered boxes, these need information GATHER AS MUCH OF THIS INFORMATION as possible