I am the gatekeeper
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I AM THE GATEKEEPERResearch using Databases and Google
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What’s the Information for?What’s the purpose of the information?Persona
l Academic or
Professional
Google, Wikipedia,
etc.
Peers, colleagues,
friends, parents
Databases, Newspapers, Magazines, Scholarly
Journals, Encyclopedias, Texts, Statistics Canada,
etc.
Professionals, Specialists, Teachers, Professors, etc.
Carefully assessed websites based on specific credibility criteria (Google)
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How does Google Work?But the problem is…1. The higher the
frequency the use of the page, the more prominent the placement – even if the information is incorrect.
2. You become the “gatekeeper” for the credibility of a website.
3. Money talks.And Wikipedia?
Well…
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If you’ve got the money…
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Googling also gets you…
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Databases! Databases provide peer-edited, collated
information. The professional is the gatekeeper.
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Googling: You are the gatekeeper
When using a broad search engine, you will need to assess the
credibility of the sites. Let’s give it a shot…http://www.dhmo.org/
http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
You have to evaluate the credibility of all sources: traditional and digital media
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What’s the Criteria?
When Evaluating Websites, you need to think about the following:
Authority: • Who is the author?• Can you trust him/her? • What are his/her credentials?
Objectivity:• What is the author’s purpose?• Who is the intended audience?• Is the author biased?• Does the author use objective or
subjective language (e.g. racial slurs or stereotypes)
• Does the work contain facts, opinions, or propaganda?
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What’s the Criteria?When Evaluating Websites, you need to think about
the following:Accuracy:• Are the facts correct? Can you find
them in other research?• Are the opinions supported with data
or references to other work?
Completeness: • Does the work answer your
question completely?• Is there enough information to
make the source “valuable”?
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What’s the Criteria?When Evaluating Websites, you need to think about
the following:Currency: • What is the publication
date? • Is it current? Does it
matter if the information is current?
Relevancy: • Did you find the information you
needed for your topic?• Does it provide more detailed
information that is not related to your topic?
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How am I supposed to remember? You can check out this slideshow on the Tutorials
Page of our Website. There are also a lot of other resources on there:
This slideshow How to Format an Essay for MLA with headings (Word
Document) How to Format a report in APA (video) How to Format a Word Document in MLA and APA
(video) APA and MLA Annotated Bibliography MLA and APA Quick Guides (Word Documents) Note-Taking Sheets (Word Document)
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See?