1. 10th Grade Research Paper
Website Evaluations

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

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

4. 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)?

5. 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)

6. Website Evaluations: WHO
Do you think the author or publisher might have a bias?
Gun Control

7. 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
WHAT audience is the site targeting?

8. 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

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

10. 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

11. For website sources, you MUST display URL

12. 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

13. 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!!

14. 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