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on 2007-01-21 by bigfellow

Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask

on 2008-12-06 by williammooney

Good way to evaluate a web url

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Evaluating Web Pages:
Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask

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The burden is on you - the reader - to establish the validity, authorship, timeliness, and integrity of what you find. Documents can easily be copied and falsified or copied with omissions and errors -- intentional or accidental

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Evaluating Web Pages

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Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial

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Evaluating web pages skillfully requires you to do two things at once:

  1. Train your eye and your fingers to employ a series of techniques that help you quickly find what you need to know about web pages;
  2. Train your mind to think critically, even suspiciously, by asking a series of questions that will help you decide how much a web page is to be trusted.

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Evaluating web pages skillfully requires you to do two things at once:

  1. Train your eye and your fingers to employ a series of techniques that help you quickly find what you need to know about web pages;
  2. Train your mind to think critically, even suspiciously, by asking a series of questions that will help you decide how much a web page is to be trusted.

This page is organized to combine the two techniques into a process that begins with looking at your search results from a search engine or other source, follows through by investigating the content of page, and extends beyond the page to what others may say about the page or its author(s).

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Techniques for Web Evaluation :
1. Find out what other web pages link to this page.
a. Use alexa.com URL information:
Type or paste the URL into alexa.com's search box.
Click on "Overview".
You will see, depending on the volume of traffic to the page:
  • Traffic details.
  • "Related links" to other sites visited by people who visited the page.
  • Sites that link to the page.
  • Contact/ownership info for the domain name.
  • A link to the "Wayback Machine," an archive showing what the page looked like in the past.

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Evaluating web pages skillfully requires you to do two things at once:

  1. Train your eye and your fingers to employ a series of techniques that help you quickly find what you need to know about web pages;
  2. Train your mind to think critically, even suspiciously, by asking a series of questions that will help you decide how much a web page is to be trusted.

This page is organized to combine the two techniques into a process that begins with looking at your search results from a search engine or other source, follows through by investigating the content of page, and extends beyond the page to what others may say about the page or its author(s).

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  • Train your eye and your fingers to employ a series of techniques that help you quickly find what you need to know about web pages;
  • Train your mind to think critically, even suspiciously, by asking a series of questions that will help you decide how much a web page is to be trusted.

    • Highlighted by erie1shannon

    An exception can be journalism from highly reputable newspapers. But these are not scholarly. Check with your instructor before using this type of material.

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    A link to the "Wayback Machine," an archive showing what the page looked like in the past.

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    The burden is on you - the reader - to establish the validity, authorship, timeliness, and integrity of what you find. Documents can easily be copied and falsified or copied with omissions and errors -- intentional or accidental. In the general World Wide Web there are no editors (unlike most print publications) to proofread and "send it back" or "reject it" until it meets the standards of a publishing house's reputation. Most pages found in general search engines for the web are self-published or published by businesses small and large with motives to get you to buy something or believe a point of view. Even within university and library web sites, there can be many pages that the institution does not try to oversee. The web needs to be free like that!! And you, if you want to use it for serious research, need to cultivate the habit of healthy skepticism, of questioning everything you find with critical thinking.

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