Due: November 22

Reading:

• Evaluating Sources

1. Select the best web page (or web site) you found for Assignment 5 and write a brief evaluation of this page using the criteria and guidelines explained in your reading ("Evaluating Information from Web Pages" on the Evaluating Sources page.) In order to write the evaluation, briefly answer as many of the questions in reading as possible.
Write the title of the web page and the full URL (starting with: http://) at the top of your evaluation.

Write at least one paragraph about the author and at least one paragraph about the content. Your evaluation is your assessment of the usefulness and credibility of the site based on the ideas presented (content) and what you've learned about the author.

2. Find information to help you evaluate one article OR one book on your topic. This can be an article or book you found in one of the previous assignments or an additional article or book you have found that is on your research topic.

- For evaluating an article, you must at least find:
a) some information about the publication in which the article was published and
b) some information about the author.

- For evaluating a book, you must at least find:
a) one book review article that reviews the book, and
b) some information about the author.

Please provide the information requested below.

If you are evaluating an article, list the following information:

Article being evaluated:

• Title of article:
• Author(s):
• Source (name of the periodical):
• Date:
• Volume # and issue # (if given):
  
  Evaluation sources:
  
  a. One source of information that describes the publication in which the article was published:
  
  (This can usually be found from the publishers' website and is explained in "Finding Information about Periodicals" on the Evaluating Sources page.)
• Briefly summarize the description of the publication:
• Give the title and URL of the the publishers' website:
  
  b. One source of information about the author of the article being evaluated:
  
  (This is explained in "Finding Information About Authors" on the Evaluating Sources page.)
• If the author information is from a web page, give the title and URL of the web page:
• If the author information is from an article, give the title, author, source and date of the article:

If you are evaluating a book, list the following information:

Book being evaluated:

• Author of the book:
• Title of the book:
• Year the book was published:
  
  Evaluation sources:
  
  a. One article or web page that reviewed the book
  
• Author of an article or web page that reviewed the book you selected:
• Title of the periodical or web site in which the review appeared:
• Date of the periodical or web page in which the review appeared:
• Page(s) of the review article (if the review article is from a periodical):
• URL of the web page (if the review article is from a web page):
  
  b. One source of information about the author of the book being evaluated.
  
  (This is explained in "Finding Information About Authors" on the Evaluating Sources page.)
• If the author information is from a web page, give the title and URL of the web page:
• If the author information is from an article, give the title, author, source and date of the article:

SUBMIT ASSIGNMENT

E-mail: your answers to: brenner@smccd.net

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