Evaluating Web Sites A Necessary Step in Your Research

One Man’s Treasure is Another Man’s TRASH Internet searching is like shopping at a yard sale... you have to look through the junk to find the good stuff!

The Five W’s of Website Evaluation Who - Who wrote it? What - What kind of information is included? When – When was it created? Where – Where does the information come from? Why – Does the author have a purpose or motive? From Kathy Shrock’s Guides for Educators

What’s in a Domain Name? Look at the URL to answer Who & Where Sites from commercial businesses usually use.com,.biz U.S. federal government sites end in.gov,.mil K-12 sites often use “k12” in the URL University and college sites end in.edu Sites from non-profit organizations may end in.org or.net A tilde (~) or percent (%) usually means that this is a personal page – even when attached to a university or school!

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Compare Niccolo Machiavelli eMachiavelli Niccolo Machiavelli at ctbw.com History Guide Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Now You’ve Found It... Cite it! van Gogh, Vincent. The Starry Night Museum of Mod. Art, New York. MoMA: The Museum of Modern Art. Web. 14 Jan

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