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Finding Information on the Web: Evaluate Results

Using the Internet for Research? How can you tell if the stuff on the Web is good to use in your class assignment?
Subjects: Computer Science

Evaluate Results

EVALUATE THE RESULTS

All results should be evaluated with a critical eye.  The web is a confusing and crazy place.  Since anyone can post anything at any time, the information is ever changing and can be misleading, false, bogus, designed to provoke, or only minimally useful.  Be critical.  Just as you would consider the credentials of an author or publisher of a written source before accepting information, you must evaluate the source of information on the Internet.  Who created the site?  Is it updated?  Is it simply a hoax?  Anyone with technical skills and Internet access is able to put information on the Internet.

See the Guide to the right for more information about how to do this and why it is so important.

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