Research Methods in an Online World

Evaluating Web Sites Online Exercise


1 .		In the box below, please enter the following information: Your name Day/time/semester/name of your class Your e-mail address Today's date

2 .		Look at Arthur Butz's page at: http://pubweb.nwu.edu/~abutz. In the box provided, answer the following questions: 1. What is Arthur Butz's background? 2. What types of sites link to this site? 3. What does the tilde (~) mean in the url? 4. Where do the links in this document lead? 5. Would you use this site in a research paper?

3 .		Check out http://www.medscape.com/px/urlinfo. Would you trust information from this site? Why or why not?

4 .		Take a look at the site: http://www.genochoice.com/ Would you cite this as a valid source? Why or why not?

5 .		You are searching http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html for information on South Korea. Would you trust this site's information? Why or why not?