Sources: The CRAAP Test

Thinkwrite: You are shopping for a used car.  What sources of information about that car will you use?

What is it about the internet? Sources and reliability. Google: famous failures. See this? Compare to this.  Quality of information matters.

Let's think about the C.R.A.A.P. test for this site. Take notes.

Currency? Relevance? Authority? Accuracy? Purpose?

Pay attention to these factors as you look at sources.

Using Google, find at least 4 different sources that apply to your topic. Two of them should be reliable, according to the CRAAP test, and two should fail the CRAAP test on some point.

1. You must provide name of the site.
2. Describe the site, who created it, how it looks, how big it is, etc.
3. Explain how it either meets or fails the CRAAP test.

Hand in your daybooks to be checked. If you need it for typing your essay, you may give me the daybook tomorrow.

Homework:

1.  Your short essay - typed - about a cliché is due tomorrow.

2. TWFTD: reliable in OED.