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evaluating web documents for reliability and validity
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Evaluation of Web documents
Two sources must be from: Elibrary,
Ebsco, Google Scholar, or a printed source (book or magazine).
Your other sources may be from a Google search
Reliable Sources
Google, or any other search engine will give
you reliable and unreliable sources.
How do you spot the reliable ones?
Start with the url or web address
.edu and .gov are the most reliable
Reliable Sources from Google
Who wrote the pages and are they an
expert? Is a biography included? Can I find out more?
What does the author say is the purpose of the site? What else might the author have in mind for the site? How does the site differ from other sites?
When was the site created? When was it updated?
What else can I look at to determine
reliability?
Where does the information come from?
Where can I look to find out more about the sponsor of the site?
Why is this information useful for my purposes. Why should I use this information? Why is this page better than another?
More Questions to Ask
Some sources are unreliable. Do not use the following:
Wikipedia Wiki sites: wiki-how, wiki-
answers Answer pages: yahoo
answers Other students’ research
papers
Faulty Sources
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