Annotated Webliography
Assignment Description
There is a great deal of information available on the internet, and you can do a lot of research from your computer. However, not everything on the web is acceptable for academic use. This assignment will help you evaluate websites that you find on the free web.
What is an Annotated Webliography?
An annotated webliography is different from the annotated bibliography that you completed in Week 4. Instead of reviewing and analyzing specific books and articles, this assignment requires you to review websites about a particular topic and evaluate the website for its suitability for academic use. Websites will be evaluated in four specific areas:
Who is the author of the website?
Does the website present information that is biased or one-sided?
- Does the website present accurate information?
- Is the website current enough for your research topic?
- To fully understand what to consider in each area, complete the tutorial at Evaluating Web Sites before you start your paper.
- Sometimes people confuse a web address with being the same as a website. This is not the case. Articles from journals or websites are not websites. Make sure you are clear as to what a website is. For example, msn.com, yahoo.com, and bbc.com are websites. Articles contained within them are not.