Evaluating+Sources+of+Information


 * Your FIVE Evaluating Criteria for sources are: **
 * 1) **AUTHOR**
 * 2) **DATE**
 * 3) **PUBLISHER**
 * 4) **REVIEWS**
 * 5) **CONTENT**


 * Working with your partner, review the five Web sites given to you (you are responsible for going through ALL FIVE today - reviewing, remember, not reading word for word) and then answer the following questions FOR EACH SITE in your notebook. Be sure to write the Web site name (not entire URL, but name of site. Ex.: Yahoo, not http://www.yahoo.com) and then number 1-4, always keeping the answers in the following order (you do NOT need to write out the questions - they're right here):**

1. Who is the author? What expertise does he or she have on this topic? 2. Who is the site's sponsor? How does their bias affect the information on the page? 3. On what date was the page created? Do you need more current information? 4. Would you quote information from this site in a college research paper? WHY or WHY NOT?

**So, for example, in your notebook write:** **Urban Air: Health Effects of Particulates, Sulfur Dioxide, and Ozone** **1.** And write your answer for question #1, only then write 2. and so on. Your answers will not all be brief, so do not number your paper first.


 * NOTE: every question has TWO PARTS. Be thorough and answer completely. **