Critical Reading
A. Evaluating Web Sites
a. Does the writer identify himself/herself? Is he/she qualified to write about this topic?
b. Does the web site belong to an organization that you have heard of?
c. What is the apparent purpose of the web site?
d. Is the information based on reliable, outside sources or the writer's opinions?
e. Is this an open-source web site like Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia? If it is, anyone can contribute to it, so you should check the information in other sources.
When you are looking for information about a topic on the Web, you may first have to choose among the many sites listed on Google or another search engine Look for the following clues:
