How Do These Sites Rate?
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Consider the following web pages in relation to the question of WHO? Who wrote the page? What are the person's qualifications? Can you contact them? Who sponsors the page? Who is the intended audience?
Professor Arthur Butz's pages about the Holocaust.
http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~abutz/
The Holocaust History Project.
http://www.holocaust-history.org/
Consider the following web pages in relation to the question of WHAT? What isn't here? After determining who created the site, this is THE most important question. What has the author/publisher chosen to leave out (or failed to include)? (Check to see whether quotations and information are cited.) Are opposing viewpoints presented? What is the source of the site's information? Is it cited? Are sources presented fairly?
Civil Rights Libraryhttp://www.martinlutherking.org/library.html
The Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King
Consider the following web pages in relation to the question of WHERE? Where is this web site located? (What is the URL domain-are the final letters — .com, .edu, .org, or .gov — and what do they signify?)
Image Archive on the American Eugenics MovementEugenics WatchThe NeoEugenics' Web Site
Consider the following web pages in relation to the question of WHY? Why does this site exist? (What is it selling? A product, a person, or a point of view?)
The United States Internal Revenue ServiceJim Deal's TaxTruth4U website:
Consider the following web pages in relation to the question of WHEN? When was the page last updated? How old are the sources? Is the information current? Will the site still be in place next week? Next month? Next year?
Scientific American article entitled "The First Human Cloned Embryo"The Human Cloning Foundation
Consider the following web pages in relation to the question of HOW? How well is the site put together? Is it easy to navigate and is information conveniently located? How is the information presented? Is there an appropriate balance between flash (graphics and sound) and substance? (Note: for some sites, graphics or sound may not be flash but essential--an image archive, for example.)
Abortion Absolutely Not!Sydney's Abortion ExperienceReligiousTolerance.org — Abortion
Some other sites to consider. Pay particular attention to the purpose of the site:
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Created March 4, 2003