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Week 1 Day 2 Assignment Template
Assignment 1.2: Determining Internet Integrity (page 12)
Directions: Consider the four criteria of determining the integrity of your research sources (authority, currency, content, and accuracy) and analyze
The Daily Onion
and
USAToday
, two online newspapers, and determine which is more credible. Use the checklist in Determining Internet Credibility to guide your analysis. After completing this chart, write a brief memo to report your findings. Begin with your conclusion and use details to support.
The table below should help with this assignment. Copy the table below into a Word document, go to each website, answer each question for each of the two sites, and type the result under the heading for that site. Then, write a well constructed comparison of the two sites (at least one good paragraph) in the same document. Post the document to the week 1 day 2 assignment area in eLearn.
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The Daily Onion www.theonion.com |
USA Today www.usatoday.com |
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Authority |
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Who publishes or sponsors this Web page? |
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What makes the presenter of the page an authority? |
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Is a contact, such as an e-mail address, available for the presenter? |
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To what domain (.com, .org, .edu, .gov) does the site containing it belong? |
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Is the site “personal” (often indicated by “~” or “%” in the site’s URL)? |
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Currency |
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What is the date of the Web page? |
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When was the information last updated? |
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Is some of the information (links, data) obviously out of date? |
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Content |
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What is the purpose of the page: to entertain, inform, convince, or sell? |
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Who is the intended audience of the page, based on its content, tone, and style? |
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Can you judge the overall value of content as compared with other resources on this topic? |
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How detailed is the information? |
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Accuracy |
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Do the page’s assertions (“facts”) seem reliable to you? |
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Do you find spelling, grammar, or usage errors? Broken links? |
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Do you see any evidence of bias? |
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Are footnotes necessary? If so, have they been provided? |
