Initial Observations:
To get a quick, initial overview of a website, look at information on the website's "About Us" page, including information about authors, publisher, funders, and mission/purpose.
In-Depth Evaluation Strategy:
To dig deeper into the credibility and reliability of a website, you'll need to do more reading and investigating, including:
The video below, from the University of Louisville, discusses "lateral reading", which is a strategy professional fact-checkers use to determine how reliable an online source is.
Citizen Literacy was created by Robert Detmering, Amber Willenborg, and Terri Holtze for University of Louisville Libraries and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
How Wikipedia CAN be useful in the beginning stages of research:
Why NOT to use Wikipedia for academic research: X The accuracy and authority of a Wikipedia article cannot be verified. |
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