>> Why is it important for you to know how to evaluate Web resources?
Overview of Online Materials: The Internet
Overview of Online Materials: The Resources
Search Engines, Meta-Search Engines, and Subject-Based Search Engines
Things to Remember About Search Engines, Meta-Search Engines, and Subject Directories
Problems with Websites, Example 1
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Continued
Problems with Web Sites, Example 2
Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages
Criteria for Evaluation: Author or Webmaster
Criteria for Evaluation: The Author’s Point of View
Criteria for Evaluation: The Publisher
Criteria for Evaluation: Purpose
Criteria for Evaluation: Accuracy, Completeness, and Objectivity/Bias
Criteria for Evaluation: Accuracy
Criteria for Evaluation: Relevance
Criteria for Evaluation: Coverage
Criteria for Evaluation: Currency
Criteria for Evaluation: Visual Literacy
Criteria for Evaluation: Visual Literacy Continued
First, as with the basic research skills, understanding the Web and how to evaluate web site information is a skill that you can (and should) apply to all the research you do there.
Second, in learning how to evaluate Web resources/information, you will be able to find the BEST Web resources/information for your research.
Third, because you will be learning how the Web works, the types of information located there, and how to evaluate what you find, you will be doing research in a better, more effective way.
Fourth, these skills will be tested when you take the Web Evaluation Quiz as part of the Freshman English Composition course.
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