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College Writing: Evaluate Websites | Step 1

This guide was created to help you learn the steps to successful academic research.

How to Evaluate Websites

According to Interlivestats.com "There are over 1.5 billion websites on the world wide web today. Of these, less than 200 million are active." 200 million is still an overwhelming number to search through when you're looking for trustworthy information. If you're using information you found on the web, it's important that you know how to evaluate the currency, accuracy and authority, relevancy, and purpose (CARP) of the site. Afterall, you don't want your information to smell "fishy."    

Websites

Evaluate a Website

Wikipedia

Website Question
https://library.berkshireschool.org/collegewriting/web-evaluation
library.berkshireschool.org
crawl=CC-MAIN-2022-21
39887
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:574HAV5W2C2PF3JEO7ZL5DTKDMRIRJO2
<urn:uuid:662d9b70-b3f3-4591-95ec-dd5a06ca1d7e>
2022-05-24T00:06:42Z
3.86.37.148
text/html
sha1:NSKDKFW2262WUD6MQUME3UR5BRF23KIR
<urn:uuid:403981f2-7bcb-429a-94b2-9b2a3412e39c>
https://library.berkshireschool.org/collegewriting/web-evaluation
response
<urn:uuid:98d84a0a-2c24-4720-84aa-656a6263e1e3>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-21
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for May 2022
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-253
software: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.3-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/