Monday, 23 January 2012

Finding and using reliable information on the internet is not only a key to good research it is also not so easy to do. When you look for help on...

Information
available on the internet can be very valuable, completely useless or anywhere in between.  It
is sometimes very difficult to tell if information you find can be trusted.  There are many time
I have had to simply disregard information I found because I could not verify how true it was. 
Below are some criteria I use when doing research on the internet:

Website
Domain - .edu, .org, .com; Pretty much in that order of preference.  A ".edu" is a
site associated with an educational institution.  I tend to trust the information found on these
sites the most.  A ".org" is a site from a non-profit organization. Not that you can
automatically trust these sites, but I have found them to be a bit more reliable as long as you
realize that their organization may make...

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