LET'S
PRACTICE
This exercise is meant to help you practice evaluating a web page
and locating the author or source. Learning about the author's
background or expertise on a topic as well as the sponsoring organization's
role in publishing the information can help you judge the authority
and overall credibility of a site's information. A web site without
author information is very suspect.
Select one of the web sites below by clicking on the image box.
Spend some time evaluating the content. Be sure to go beyond the
first page, linking to other sections of the site. Afterward,
answer the following questions to evaluate how current the source
is. Use the worksheet, if you are turning
in this exercise.
Is this someone's personal page, yes or no? How can you tell?
Who
sponsored or published the site's information?
Was it difficult or easy to find information about the sponsor
or publisher?
Did you have to truncate the web address in order to locate
information about the sponsor?
List one thing you found out about the sponsoring organization's
history, focus and/or funding?
Explain one way this could influence or impact the authority
and reliability of the site's information? |
