How Does Your Web Source Rate?

1. Compare and Contrast

A student used the first source below on road rage. Check out at least two of the sources in the second column and explain why they’re more credible than Road Rage and Teens.

Student’s Source: / Other Sources:
Road rage and teens. (n.d.). Retrieved July 20, 2004, from
alyplace
/ Elliot, B. J. (1999, May 12). Road rage: Media hype or serious road safety issue? Paper presented at the Third National Conference on Injury Prevention and Control, Brisbane, Australia. Retrieved April 6, 2008, from
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Alternative (if you can’t link to the above)
Kristen’s road rage page. (n.d.) Retrieved April 6, 2008, from
road_rage_page

road_rage_page
Questions to help you compare:
•Who is the author?
•Does a reputable publication or institution sponsor the site?
•How current is the material? (If the material was not published recently, is the information you want to use still valid?)
•Does the material give a range of opinion on the topic, or does the author express only a personal opinion?
•How well does the source cover the topic: does the article simply explain what most people would already know, or does the author provide in-depth information or an expert opinion? / Rathbone, D. B., Y Huckabee, J. C. (1999). Controlling road rage: A literature review and pilot study.Journal of Safety Research,34(5). Retrieved April 6, 2008, from AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety Web site:
index.cfm?button=roadrage

index.cfm?button=roadrage
Sharkin, B. S. (2002): Road rage: Risk factors, assessment, and intervention factors. Journal of Counseling & Development, (82)2. Retrieved July 20, 2004, from Academic Search Elite database.

2.Rating Sources on Math Anxiety

Here are several sources on math phobia. Number them in order, with 1 being the most reliable and 5 being the least reliable. Explain the reasons for your ranking.

Ranking /

Source

/ Reasons
Phobia-Fear-Release

“Their Number Is Up”

Exploratory Factor Analysis of the Math Anxiety Scale (Pajraes and Urdan, Academic Search Elite)

No. 2 Pencil: Erasing Math Phobia

3. Creating a Reference List Entry

Create a reference list entry for the source you rated most reliable. After you have finished, explain how information in the reference list entry can help you evaluate a source. You might write a paragraph, or draw arrows to significant parts of the entry (such as the name of the site sponsor) and provide a label for each arrow.

For help creating a reference list entry, see

•model paper

•Diana Hacker’s site

•citation maker: or

For help evaluating Web sites, see

•URLs

•Evaluating Web Pages: Techniquces to Apply & Questions to Ask (UC Berkeley)
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