week 9

INFORMATION

ANALYSIS

—Criteria for evaluating Internet Sources: purpose, scope/coverage/comprehensiveness, uthorit, audience,information content, design and layout and access/Workability.

Criteria for evaluating Resources

Purpose

—What is the purpose of the resource?

—Resource should make their purpose obvious at first sight.

—Does the site promote a product?

—Does the resource fulfill the stated purpose?

Authority

Institution

Is this the official site of an organization or association?

Is the publisher a  recognized organization?

 Information Content

1. Accuracy: Is the information in the resource accurate? check this against other resources, or by checking some information about which you have special knowledge.

II. Uniqueness: Is the resource original, or has it been derived from other sources? or Is the information in this resource available in other forms (for example other sites, Gopher, WWW, print, CD-ROM)? What advantages does this particular resource have?

Quality of writing

—Does the text follow basic rules of grammar, spelling and literary composition?

Organization

The organizational scheme must be appropriate, for example chronological for an historical source, or geographical for a regional resource

Colour

—Are backgrounds or other visual elements distracting or cluttered?

                                                 Plagiarism

Words, ideas, images and sounds need to be documented and given credit if they are not your own

After all we have summarize a list of useful criteria for evaluating internet information sources. exploring all these criteria is a good beginning for becoming a critical consumer of information in all form