Evaluating Web Sources Your Storytelling assignment does not involve outside res

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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?

Explanation / Answer

1)
http://www.dhmo.org/
https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

2)
http://www.dhmo.org/ : No its not accurate, visual bugs in the website, content on the website is not aligned and unorganized.
https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/: Accurate, well organized, descriptive and provides complete research on the topic covered.

3)
http://www.dhmo.org/
Are the sites' authors/sponsors credible? How do you know?
Yes, information provided seems to be correct, goverment organization providing details of org and also welcomes feedback from the users.

When was each site last updated?
July 20, 2018

Is the information on each site objective? How do you know?
No, information is not organized, only one page in the website which has almost everything captured in one frame.

Can the information on these sites be confirmed?
Yes

What does your intuition tell you about these sites? Why?
Site can be trusted but needs some efforts to make it well maintained.

How do the websites use language, organization, and/or design to convey credibility?
Language is the best part of this website, as this supports all the global languages but org and design are not up to the mark.

https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
Are the sites' authors/sponsors credible? How do you know?
Yes, all the information cross referenced and verified on other internet resources.

When was each site last updated?
22 May 2018

Is the information on each site objective? How do you know?
Yes, provides well organized, detailed research on the subject under consideration.

Can the information on these sites be confirmed?
Yes

What does your intuition tell you about these sites? Why?
Website makes good point regarding the subject and takes good initiatives

How do the websites use language, organization, and/or design to convey credibility?
This is the one point which website can work upon, as the language being used is a bit informal and also colors could be used in a much better way make website more appealing

4) Information on web source differ from one site to another. Information on web sources is not validated and it could be an individuals way of thinking and presenting the information. Unless some authorized entity verifies a website's information, it cannot be trusted completely.

5) They should provide tags to the resources, certication or authoried orgnations

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