Evaluating Web Sources

Your Storytelling assignment does not involve outside research, but your next assignments will: the CPA and the Informative Speech. This is a good time to reflect on the characteristics of quality sources. Certainly, the topic of fake websites is a timely one.

1. Choose two of the following websites to evaluate by clicking on the highlighted text.

http://www.thedogisland.com/facilities.html

http://www.dhmo.org/

https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

https://www.allaboutexplorers.com/explorers/hudson/

2. For each website you choose, determine if the website is accurate. How do you know? Write a minimum of two sentences to satisfy this item.

3. Consider the following about each website:

Are the sites' authors/sponsors credible? How do you know?

When was each site last updated?

Is the information on each site objective? How do you know?

Can the information on these sites be confirmed?

What does your intuition tell you about these sites? Why?

How do the websites use language, organization, and/or design to convey credibility?

4. Why shouldn't speakers rely solely on web sources?

5. What information about web sources should speakers provide to their audiences orally? on slides?