Web Sources How to evaluat ? Nowadays, web technologies grant fast access to a tremendous variety of sources, but they cannot help you decide by themselves which of those sources to use for your research. It is up to you to evaluate each potential sources to determine whether it is relevant and reliable.

Concept Benefits VS. drawbacks Strategies (CARS) Credibility Accuracy Reasonableness Support review Conclusion Citation

The Internet offers new ways to research and requires new methods of assuring that the information presented is credible. Evaluating sources requires you to think critically and make judgments about which sources will be useful for your research. BenefitsDrawbacks  An enormous amount of information. Currently it is estimated that there are about 800 million pages of information on the Web.  Speed. Doing a search on the Internet can take just seconds.  Timeliness. On the Internet you can find information that has just been made available a few minutes earlier.  Multimedia. The Internet delivers not just text, but graphics, audio, and video.  Lack of permanence. Web pages are notoriously unstable. They appear, move, and disappear irregularly.  - Diverse collection of information. Diversity makes it difficult to separate out the type of information you want.  Emphasis on new information. The Web came into being in the early 1990s. Most of the information available on the Internet postdates that time. However, this is changing as certain Web site owners are loading older, archival material. VS. ?

1. Credibility (1) The source is trustworthy. Ex. Consider an online edition of a major newspaper or news magazine.

1. Credibility (2) The argument and use of evidence are clear and logical. (3)The author's or sponsor's credentials are available. (4) Quality control is evident. Ex. Spelling and grammer are correct, and links are fuctional.

1. Credibility (5) The sourse is a known or repspected authority; it has organizational support. Ex. Such as a university, a research institution.

1. Credibility (6)The sourse appears at or near the top of a Google search. Ex. Google.com ranks sites according to their popularity; sites near the top of a list of "hints" are the most frequently accessed by the people looking for the same infomation you seek.

2. Accuracy (1) The site is updated frequently, if not daily. Note: Also including "last updated" information.

2. Accuracy (3) The site's purpose includes completeness and accuracy. (2) The site provides evidence for its assertions. (4)The site is detailed. Ex. Text appears in full paragraphs.

2. Accuracy (5) The site is comprehencsive. Ex. Including archives, links, and additional resourses. Note: A search feature and table of contents or tabs allow you to quickly find the information you need.

 3.Reasonableness (1) The site is fair, balanced, and objective (2) The site makes its purpose clear. Find what ways does the information from an online source specifically. Look carefully at the purpose and tone of the text. Particulary when evaluating blogs and online newsgroup postings,compare any data and claims with those. (3)The site contains no conflict of interest text.

 Slanted tone: It means that whoever is writing or speaking with it is biased towards one side, and not being objective. This happens sometimes in the Media. Instead of presenting two sides of an issue fairly, the reporter or journalist will take sides, intentionally or unintentionally influencing the audience, because the audience doesn't get all the information (4) The site does not include fallacies or a slanted tone. VS.

4. Support (1) The site lists scholarly or otherwise reliable sources for its information, providing links where available. (2) The site claries which content it is responsible for and which links are created by unrelated authors or sponsors.

(3) The site provides contact information for its authors and/or sponsors. (4) If the site is an academic resource, it follows the conventions of a specific citation style(MLA,APA,or other accepted style)

1.Evaluating Sources on the Web – Use Common Sense 2.Quality of writing  writing on a web site should be grammatically correct, free from spelling errors, and at least of fairly high quality. High quality writing conveys the meaning of the text clearly and easily.

 Check this website with CARS Checklist The topic of this website is Male Pregnancy

 Credibility author's or sponsor's credentials not available Looks like a hospital’s research  Accuracy No last update information. No link or unrelated link

 Reasonableness No research from any doctor. No specific date or data of research  Support Some news links but they are all fake. No contact information at all  Consequence

 Evaluating web sources is an important skill that we should know especially as college students.  We can eliminate the inappropriate information from million web sources by following the steps of CARS. It will make sure sources we find are accurate and trustworthy.

 The Brief McGraw-Hill Handbook, Elaine P. Maimon, Janice H. Peritiz, Kathleen Blake Yancey, Chapter 16, P.179~185.  Washingtog Post:  Michigan State University:  Leah Keys Stahl Facebook:   Team Activities for Special Kids:  Boogie Jack. com:  Drawbacks-of-the-Internet-as-a-Research-Source/5346

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