Transcript Evaluating web sites (new window)

Evaluating Web sites
• It can be easy to use Google and use websites
you find for research
• But you can find a huge amount of information
and the best sources maybe
pages into your results on Google
• Anyone can create a web site so you need to be
careful when selecting information you find on
the web
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Evaluating Web sites (cont.)
• Your tutors will require you to use a variety of
sources and primarily you should be using
academic sources. For example books, journal
articles and other resources that are available
via NORA
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Intute
 A selection of quality web sites that have been
chosen by Academic staff and Librarians on
different business and management subject
areas
It will save you time searching the web and you
can be sure the web sites are good quality and
reliable.
Use Intute alongside the resources available via
the Library Catalogue and NORA
http://www.intute.ac.uk/business/ Or
http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/
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Wikipedia
Great if you want to know something quick for
personal use!
But its unreliable and your tutors won’t want you
to use it in your assessments or seminar work as
it’s not an academic source
Anyone can go on and edit the pages and add
anything, it may be a while before it is noticed
and corrected
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Tips to consider when using web sites
• Authorship
 Who wrote the web site or information on the
web page? Are they an expert, well known
company?
• References
 Have they used any references you check
their work- follow up sources they have used?
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(Cont.)
• Currency
 How up to date is the information, when was
the website last updated?
• Purpose
 Is it written with any bias? This can be hard
to tell but some company websites for
example will only produce positive information
about themselves
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Finally…
Any material you find used MUST be rewritten in YOUR OWN WORDS and you must
acknowledge your sources – failure to do
this is plagiarism and is considered serious
academic misconduct.
Remember to
ask us if you are
unsure about
searching for
information
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