1. How do I select relevant web or online resources?
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2. You are writing an essay on
pay equity and women and start your research by doing a Google search

3. When you are searching Google, you are searching the free web, which is made up of different kinds of websites.

4. Most of the sites you will find are not considered scholarly and, depending on your assignment, may not be appropriate.

5. Let’s look at 4 of the results

6. Here is a website from the Ontario government

7. There is information relevant to our topic, but government information is not considered peer reviewed or scholarly

8. Here is a report from an American organization’s website

9. There is information about the gender pay gap, but there are no authors, citations or references. This information is not peer reviewed or scholarly.

10. There is information about the gender pay gap, but there are no authors, citations or references. This information is not peer reviewed or scholarly.

11. This is an online article from The Globe and Mail, a Canadian newspaper.

12. This article has an author, but no credentials.
The article has no citations or reference list.

13. There are many advertisements on this website.
This article is not peer reviewed or scholarly.

14. This is an online article from Time, an American news magazine.

15. This article has an author, but no credentials
This article has an author, but no credentials. The article has no citations or reference list.
This article is not peer reviewed or scholarly.

16. As you can see in these examples,
these results are not scholarly articles.
Check with your professor before using
them as sources in your assignment

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