Rick Adams wrote:
> Some time ago a Web site was referenced here that did an excellent job of
>demonstrating the difference between sound, reliable, web based sources of
>information (for students writing papers) and unreliable or unsound ones....
I'm not sure if these are the sites you were thinking of, but here are
three sources I have found very helpful to my Research Methods students. I
think it was Sue Frantz from NMSU, who first turned me on to these; maybe
it was her post that you recall.
http://www.science.widener.edu/~withers/webeval.htm Evaluating
Web Resources (Wolfgram Memorial Library; Widener University)
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/instruct/critical.htm Thinking
Critically About World Wide Web Resources (Esther Grassian; UCLA Library)
Here you will find a link to a newer site she's done called
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/instruct/discp.htm Thinking
Critically About Discipline-Based World Wide Web Resources (very useful)
http://itech1.coe.uga.edu/Faculty/gwilkinson/criteria.html Evaluating
the Quality of Internet Information Resources (G.L. Wilkinson, et al.,
University of Georgia)
I hope these help. I agree, it would be criminal to forbid students to cite
internet sources, but they do need help to discriminate the pearls from the
piggies.
Larry Dickerson
Selkirk College
Castlegar, BC Canada
