Evaluating Websites
The Internet offers a wide range of information and perspectives, much of
it incorrect-- or, at the very least, incomplete or biased.
Consider the popular online encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
Wikipedia offers a great deal of information-- most of it true-- but it is written
and edited by unnamed authors. Professors tend to make disapproving faces at
students who cite Wikipedia articles for their papers.
For the purpose of including information in a college-level research paper,
a web source must meet certain high standards. Consider beginning to evaluate
a web source by answering the following questions....
