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