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Evaluating On-line and Printed Resources

Evaluating On-line and Printed Resources. The Writing Studio Bate 2005. Why Do I Need to Evaluate What I Find on the Web?. The Web is a vast, disorganized mass of resources of varying quality and reliability. It contains over 800 million individual Web pages.

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Evaluating On-line and Printed Resources

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  1. Evaluating On-line and Printed Resources The Writing Studio Bate 2005

  2. Why Do I Need to Evaluate What I Find on the Web? • The Web is a vast, disorganized mass of resources of varying quality and reliability. • It contains over 800 million individual Web pages. • 83% of these pages are commercial in nature. • Only 6% are educational or academic. • No editorial control, meaning anyone can publish anything, whether fact, interpretation or a complete fabrication.

  3. Pre-evaluation • Decide your purpose. • This will figure out what sources will help you the most.

  4. Evaluate what you have found • Who is the author? • Is the information accurate? • What is the purpose of the information? • Is the information timely? • Rely on critical thinking skills to ensure accurate information!

  5. Look for "brand names" – ex. www.washingtonpost.com: (Washington Post) britannica.com: (Encyclopedia Britannica) www.census.gov: (United States Census Bureau) Look at URL: .com .edu .gov .org How can I find reliable web sites?

  6. Use a web directory: Organized collections of links to Web resources Created by people Browsable by subject or topic, searchable in some cases Items included according to evaluative criteria, including accuracy and reliability of information. Useful Web Directories: About.com: <http://www.about.com> Academic Info: <http://www.academicinfo.net> Argus Clearinghouse: <http://www.clearinghouse.net> Internet Public Library: <http://www.ipl.org> Cont.

  7. Search engines AltaVista Dogpile Excite HotBot Infoseek Lycos Metacrawler Yahoo! WebFerret program Reference sites WWWebster dictionary A web of on-line dictionaries OneLook dictionaries ARTFL project: Roget’s thesaurus search form Atlapedia online Encyclopaedia Britannica online Encyclopedia Smithsonian More online resources

  8. Virtual libraries Joyner library The British library The internet public library Thor+: the libraries of Purdue university The WWW virtual library The library of congress The Webliography: internet subject guides Text archives Electronic text center—university of Virginia library Project Bartleby archive Project Gutenberg Cont.

  9. News sites The New York Times on the web The Washington Post U.S. News Online National Geographic CNN Interactive Sites for evaluating sources “What is This Stuff? Evaluating What You Find on the Web” "Checklist for Evaluating Web Sites," Canisius College Library & Internet "Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools," Olin Kroch Uris Libraries "Evaluating Internet Information," Internet Navigator

  10. Further Sources for Evaluating Web Sites • Rutgers University Libraries, Evaluating World Wide Web Information • <http://crab.rutgers.edu/~scholzcr/eval.html> • University of California, Los Angeles, College Library, Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources • <http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/instruct/web/critical.htm> • University of Michigan Undergraduate Library, What to Look For in a Website • http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/UGL/research/evaluation/ • World Wide Web Virtual Library, Evaluation of Information Sources • <http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/evaln.htm>

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