Using Websites in your Researh

Just say no to Wikipedia

What is a website?

A search engine like bing or google is not a website

Websites have multiple pages Websites have an independent web

address

What is a Creditable Website?

Finding ‘real’ information is difficult Anyone can put information on to the

internet Difference between creditable

evidence and non-creditable evidence

What is a Creditable Website?

Who is getting paid is one of the best tests for creditability

Advertisers and free cites should be suspect for real research

College and government websites are very good

Newspapers are strong too About.com pays experts to work for it

What is wrong with Wikipedia?

Nothing and everything Great source for learning Terrible source for research Any member can change any

information on the cite For years, Mrs. Shipp changed the

Zebra page to say “A Zebra is a white horse with black stripes or a black horse with white stripes.” Funny but not true

What is wrong with Wikipedia?

You may not cite Wikipedia as a source for your paper

What should you use?

http://www.greekmythology.com/

http://www.mythweb.com/

http://www.theoi.com/

What should you use?

http://gogreece.about.com/cs/mythology/a/godsclipart.htm

http://messagenetcommresearch.com/myths/bios/index.html

How to take citation information You still

need information from the website

How to take citation information

You need Author Title of the entire website Sponsor

› check the contact us page for this info Date of publication if possible DO NOT NEED the web address

What to write down

Still need the same 5 things from the source

How many websites do you need?

2 please