To find information about a website, find the home page. You may have to deconstruct the URL. For example, you might be looking for a page that talks about the first jobs of famous business tycoons. The search engine turns up the following site: http://fortune.com/2015/03/31/four-successful-business-tycoons-first-jobs/
In order to find the home page, you need to eliminate everything on the address after the .com
http://fortune.com
Now you have the home page. From there you can access information about the company, note whether material has been updated, and get contact information. The homepage gives a good picture of credibility.
It is important to be able to identify which sources are credible. This ability requires an understanding of depth, objectivity, currency, authority, and purpose. Whether or not your source is peer-reviewed, it is still a good idea to evaluate it based on these five factors.
The most credible source is one with multiple, well-reviewed publications on the subject, backed by the author's expertise and the publication's reputability.
Peer-reviewed academic articles are considered reliable sources of information because they undergo a rigorous evaluation process by experts in the field before being published.
Understanding depth, objectivity, currency, authority, and purpose are prerequisites for this skill. It is a good idea to assess your source using these five criteria regardless of whether or not it has undergone peer review.
These include: 1. Lack of authorship or publication date: If the source doesn't have an identifiable author or publication date, it might not be reliable. 2. Bias: If the source appears to have a particular agenda or bias, it may not present information objectively or accurately.
Transparency: Good news sources clearly mark opinion columns as opinion, disclose conflicts of interest, indicate in stories where information was obtained and how it was verified, and provide links to sources.
A credible or reliable source is one where you can trust the information that the source provides. You can rely on the information provided within the source because the person, publisher, or institution that is providing this information is a credible source for that information.
The term scholarly typically means that the source has been “peer-reviewed,” which is a lengthy editing and review process performed by scholars in the field to check for quality and validity. To determine if your source has been peer-reviewed, you can investigate the journal in which the article was published.
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