Evaluating Internet Research Sources - 1 views
-
Unlike most traditional information media (books, magazines, organizational documents), no one has to approve the content before it is made public.
-
It's your job as a searcher, then, to evaluate what you locate, in order to determine whether it suits your needs.
- ...6 more annotations...
-
Once you decide on this, you will be able to screen sources much more quickly by testing them against your research goal
-
By thinking about these issues while searching, you will be able to identify suspicious or questionable sources more readily.
-
It is important to keep these considerations in mind, so that you will not simply take the opinion of the first source or two you can locate.