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Evaluating Website Credibility: Trust Your Judgment and Utilize Clues

Learn to effectively evaluate website credibility by leveraging your prior knowledge. A quick overview can provide essential clues about the site's reliability. Always check the credentials of authors and organizations behind the content, especially in the "About Us" section. Recognize trustworthy domain names such as .gov or reputable institutions. Use tools to identify site ownership and corroborate information with reliable sources. Approach every website critically to avoid misinformation, as surface professionalism can sometimes mask misleading content.

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Evaluating Website Credibility: Trust Your Judgment and Utilize Clues

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  1. Website Evaluation

  2. Prior Knowledge • Use previous knowledge to evaluate a website • A quick overview may provide clues • Inreach.com • Does it make sense? • Trust your judgment.

  3. Checking credentials…. • Whether site looks or sounds good, always check credentials (“About Us” “About”, etc.) • May have to Google the author • Are they qualified to write about the topic? • ufos-aliens.co.uk vs. • badastronomy.com

  4. Clues in the URL…. • Some domain names are usually trustworthy • .gov • www.whitehouse.gov • www.libraryofcongress.gov • www.nih.gov • Sometimes clues are hidden in domain names • tilde (~) indicates a personal page • check this information with more reliable source

  5. Clues in the URL cont.: • Check out this site: • http://umich.edu/~engtt516/index2.html • Now check out this one • http://umich.edu/~engtt516/masterforgers.html • **Always a good idea to check info. on a site with other reliable sources like encyclopedias

  6. Become a detective…. • Site could: • Look professional • Sound reliable • Link to good organizations • **and still be misleading…. • www.dhmo.org

  7. dhmo cont.: • Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is only water • made to sound scary and dangerous by: • how it was written • omitting of facts • easy to circulate misinformation or urban legends on the Internet because nooversight

  8. Who owns the site? • Use http://www.register.com/whois.rcmx • Can identify the owner of the site and research them on Google • www.martinlutherking.org • “Stormfront” is listed as owner of this site • Google search indicates that “Stormfront” is a hate group • Will this information be unbiased?

  9. Works Cited • "Dihydrogen Minoxide." Dhmo.org. Tom Way, 15 Nov. 2012. Web. 15 Nov. 2012. <http://www.dhmo.org/>. • "Fox TV and the Apollo Moon Hoax." Bad Astronomy. Phil Plait, 11 June 2001. Web. 15 Nov. 2012. <http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html>. • "http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html." Cosmic Conspiracies. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2012. <http://www.ufos-aliens.co.uk/cosmicapollo.html>. • "Life and Times." Jacopo de Poggibonsi. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2012. <http://www.umich.edu/~engtt516/lifetimes.html>. • "Martin Luther King, Jr." Martin Luther King, Jr. Stormfront, n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2012. <http://www.martinlutherking.org/>. • Umbach, Ken. "California's Velcro Crop under Challenge." Inreach. Inreach.com, 1993. Web. 15 Nov. 2012. <http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html>.

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