Now that you have
found some web pages that are of some importance to the subject you are
researching, you must stop and evaluate each web page as a source.
Anyone can create a web page and publish any information they like on
their site. It is up to you as a reader of that information to
decide if it is accurate or not. The links provided are to help
you evaluate web pages as good or bad sources of information. Some
pages include information on citing web pages as sources.
This is an on-line tutorial for using the web for
research produced by the Boulder Valley School Board in Colorado.
It contains information on most aspects of on line research including
web site evaluation.
http://bvsd.k12.co.us/~blackl/school/nvhsresearch/Web_Research.html
This is a Student's Guide to WWW Research provided
by the English Department at St Louis University.
http://www.slu.edu/departments/english/research/index.html
This information page is produced by the
Information Services Department at Connecticut College. It
provides a basic outline for evaluating web sources. They also
provide additional links on evaluating sources.
http://camel.conncoll.edu/is/info-resources/subject-guides/webevaluation.html
