This Tangled Web

Here are some resources for understanding how to evaluate information on the web.

1. "Internet Site Evaluation Worksheet" from Jim Burke's excellent teaching website. This file is a .PDF so you must have Adobe Acrobat to open it.
2. "A Student's Guide to Research on the World Wide Web" from Saint Louis University (found here on the Texas Tech University website). A valuable resource with lots of links to other sites.
3. "Criteria for Evaluating Resources" from Keith Stanger of Easter Michigan University. This web page is a list of criteria to help you evaluate the validity of information found on the internet.
4. "Evaluating Internet Resources: Site Examples" from Keith Stanger of Eastern Michigan University. This website provides a huge list of internet pages that are of varying levels of dubiousness.
5. "Evaluating Internet Research Sources" by Robert Harris, a professor at the University of Southern California. This article is off of the website Virtual Salt, and I recommend the article highly.
6. "Evaluation of Information Sources" is a site from New Zealand, a compilation of links to many, many sites offering articles, tips, and pages dedicated to the thoughtful evaluation of information on the web (and other sources). It's quite comprehensive.
7. "Applying Writing Guidelines to Web Pages" from Jakob Nielson's website www.useit.com, dedicated to "usability" guidelines on the internet. These criteria distinguish writing for the web from other types of writing, establishing web content as a kind of genre in its own right.