51 A
Reviewing a web site:
- They can be created by anyone.
- They don’t have standards for the design, so click and scroll before locating clues about a site’s reliability.
- Check for relevance, reliability, and currency.
- Browse the home page.
- Look for the name of an author or a webmaster.
- Check for a sponsor name.
- Find out when the site was created or last updated.
- For many college assignments you’ll be asked to use scholarly sources.
- Look for formal language and presentation.
- Authors who are academics or scientists, not journalists.
- Find the citation of the works.
- Original research rather than a summary of others’ work.
- Look for quotations.
- A description of research methods or a review of related research.
- If a site gives little information, be suspicious; do not rely on it.
51 B. Select appropriate versions of electronic sources
*An electronic source can be an abstract, an excerpt, or a full-text article or book. Therefore, to use complete versions of source needs to distinguish among these versions.
*Abstract – a brief summary typically appears in a database record for a periodical article. In order to cite your paper, you need to read the complete article because the abstract itself, does not contain enough information for you to cite your paper.
*Excerpt- the first few sentences or paragraphs of a newspaper or magazine article and it usually appears in a list of hits in an online search. Excerpt would help you to determine whether the article is going to be useful for paper you.
*Full-text usually appears as a PDF file (for portable document format) or as a HTML file. PDF file contains an exact copy of the pages of a periodical online article with pages numbers. The PDF file is paginated and the HTML or a text file is not paginated. If your source is available in both formats, use the PDF file because it has specific pages numbers that you cite in your paper.
51 C
Read with an open mind and critical eyes:
- As you begin reading, keep an open mind. Do not let your personal beliefs prevent you from listening to new ideas and opposing viewpoints.
- When you read critically, you are not necessarily judging an author’s work harshly; you are examining its assumptions, assessing its evidence, and weighing its conclusions.
51D-Assess Web sources with special care.
*Web sources can be deceptive.
-Sophisticated looking sites
---can be full of dubious info
---identification of author hidden
---hidden motives-know the purpose
-------hate sites
*Evaluate Sources
-Check for signs of Bias.
---political knowings/religious views
---published with special interest group
---opposing views-fairness
---language
-Assessing an argument
---central claim/thesis
---support claim
-----relevant/sufficient evidence
---consistent statistics
-----fair use
-----origin
---assumptions
-----questionable?
---opposing arguments
-----refute persuasively
---any logical fallacies?
*Evaluate Web Sources
-Authorship
---is there an author?
-----search homepage/ about this site
---knowledgeable/credible
-----qualifications listed
-----links to author's homepage
--------interests/expertise
-Sponsorship
---who sponsors the site?
----URL ending
------specifies hosting group-ex/nonprofit= .org
-Purpose & Audience
---why site was created
------position, product, inform?
---intended audience
------audience profile
------relevant info
-Currency
---date of publication/latest update
---current links
------do they work?
-Melanie, Galkhuu, Mohammed section 21
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