Evaluating Internet Resources: Home

It's important to evaluate all information sources for reliability and credibility -- but especially web sources, because almost anybody can put content on the web.

Using quality sources shows your professors, fellow students, and other readers that you have done your research and know what you are talking about.

How to evaluate?

An easy way to evaluate sources is to think of a journalist's questions: who, what, when, where, why, and how. Think about questions like these for each of your sources:

Who made this? image of a lecturer at a podium

What is in it? image of an arrow hitting a target

When was it made? image of a timeline

Where was it made? icons of a group of people