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Title of the page
you are evaluating:
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1. Look at the URL: |
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Personal page or
site? |
□ ~ or %, or users, members, or people |
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What type of domain
is it? Appropriate for the content? |
□.com □.org/net
□.edu
□.gov/mil/us
□non-US: _____ □other:___________ |
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Published by entity
that makes sense?
Does it correspond to the name of the site? |
Publisher or Domain Name entity: |
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2. Scan the
perimeter of the page, looking for answers to these questions: |
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Who wrote the page? |
□
email □ name: ____________________
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Is it dated? |
Date: ________ Current enough? |
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Credentials on this
subject? |
Evidence:
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3. Look for these
indicators of quality: |
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Sources well
documented? |
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Complete?
If
second-hand information, is it altered, forged or identical to original? |
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Links to more
resources?
Do
they work? |
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Other viewpoints?
Bias? |
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4. What do others
say? |
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Who links to it?
Ask
a librarian or teacher how to check this. |
Many or few? Opinions of it? |
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Is the page rated
well in a directory?
http://lii.org /
http://informine.urc.edu /
http://about.com |
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Look up the author
in Google: |
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5. Does it all add
up? |
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Why was the page put
on the Web? |
□Inform, facts, data
□Explain
□Persuade
□Sell □Entice
□Share/disclose
Other: |
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Possibly ironic?
Satire or parody? |
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6. BOTTOM LINE:
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Is the web page as
good as (or better than) what you could find in journal articles or
other published literature that is not on the free, general web? |
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