HERE ARE YOUR 3 OPTIONS:
| A. Reliable for Research - When a web site is evaluated as reliable for research, the Investigation Report must be filled out thoroughly, completing almost all of the questions without any trouble finding the answers to questions of Accuracy, Authority, Objectivity, Currency, and Coverage. |
| B. Accurate Information, but should not be used for research - A majority of your sites that our normally researched will fall under this category because most of the information that you are looking for on your Investigation report will not be able to be found, and a web page may be highly opinionated. Therefore, the information may be correct, but if you are not able to answer all or most of the questions for your Investigation Report, then it should not be used in one's research. |
| C. Inaccurate Information, and Unreliable - This last category is the category you would have put the web page that President Clinton was viewing. When information on a web page is outdated, or inaccurate based on your prior knowledge and what other sites that are reliable say about a topic, then you know that the information is not useful for researching. This happens rarely, but does indeed happen, so be on the lookout! |
| NOTE: It is important that you understand these 3 differences so that you can have a better understanding as to what you can use as research materials on the Internet and what you can not. The Internet is not like your library, because there is no mandate as to what can be published on the Internet. So the viewer has to be cautious as to what they use for research because not every web site is giving out the correct, unbiased information. Therefore, beware of Web-Site Scandals! |
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