Web Page Evaluation: Analyzing Authority, Accuracy, Objectivity, Currency, and Coverage - , Assignments of School management&administration

Download Web Page Evaluation: Analyzing Authority, Accuracy, Objectivity, Currency, and Coverage - and more Assignments School management&administration in PDF only on Docsity! LBSC 1011 (Gregory) Name: __________________________ Section: ______ Assignment #5 – Finding and Evaluating Web Pages (Rev.5) Use a search engine to find an informational web page on your topic. This cannot be a commercial site, a periodical homepage, an online journal or magazine article, a government site or congressional paper, a company’s web site (John Deere, Wal-Mart, etc), or a university departmental website. Also do not use any websites I show you in class. Again, pretend that you are writing a paper, or doing a project, and you need information on your topic. With these requirements in mind, choose a page and look it over; answer the following questions. Each criterion is based on the handouts and class discussions about evaluating resources. BROAD TOPIC: __________________________________________________________________ ********************************************************************************* The URL of the page is: ____________________________________________________________ The Author of the page is: __________________________________________________________ (Individual or corporate author) The purpose of the page is: ________________________________________________________ ********************************************************************************* Print out the homepage, and attach it to the homework. Criterion 1 : AUTHORITY 1. What person or organization is the author of this page? Have you heard of them before? How does their reputation affect your confidence in the value of the website? If you don’t know the reputation, how does that affect your confidence in the value of the site? Will you still use it? Why or why not? ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ 2. Is there contact information (name, address, phone number email address) for the author or corporate author on the homepage? Write the contact information below. ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ 3. Why is the contact information important? ___________________________________________________________________________ LBSC 1011 Finding and Evaluating Web Pages Page 2 of 4 ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ a. If there is no contact information on the homepage, where would you look next? ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ b. If there is no contact information, explain why the lack of contact information is a negative consideration for an online resource. ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ 4. What is the mission statement of this organization (or person)? Why did they create the site? What goals did they have at the time? Write the mission and/or goals below. ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ a. If there is not a mission statement or a goals statement, this could affect the validity and authority of the source. Why? ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ Criterion 2 : ACCURACY 1. Do the writers of this page cite their sources in a reference list? ________________________ 2. Why are reference lists important in a scholarly work? ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ 3. Is the information free of grammatical, spelling or typing errors? _______________________ a. If the page is not error free, do the errors affect your assessment of the web page’s quality? Explain why or why not. ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________