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Your Task: You are looking for information on earthquakes in American history and come across this website. Let's start by investigating who this organization is.

Directions: Click and explore the about sections of this website. Pay particular attention to the "about" page and the "staff & historians" page, both located under the About tab on the top the webpage.

What do they tell us about the credibility ofthis site?

Directions: Go back to the homepage and scroll down to the bottom.

Question

Does the listing of sponsors indicate anythingabout the trustworthiness of this site? Why or why not?

In a separate window, conduct a search for oneof the organization's founders, Walt Crowley. What information do youfind about him? How does this information impact your perception of thewebsite's quality?

Question 1: Would you use this website for a course researchpaper? Why or why not? (Please list two reasons in addition to youroverall impressions of the HistoryLink.org website).

Question 2: Your Task: You are researching the rights consumers have in the marketplace.

Directions: Look at each of the following two websites and explore them using the principles discussed in this module. We will start with this first website from the Center for Consumer Freedom.

As you compare the pairs of sites below, consider these factors:

What kind of site are you looking at? Informational? Sales? Personal? Advocating for a cause?
Who is responsible for the information? Look for an ABOUT page.
Which one is more appropriate for college assignments?
Which is more credible?
What factors helped you decide?

When you have finished, click next to explore the second website.

Which of the two websites would be best towhen looking for objective, accurate information? Why?

Discuss which factors influenced yourdecision.

3. Your Task: Your uncle recently shared this tweet with you telling you the days of toiling away at the gym are over!

Directions: Look at the two articles below. Explore each to help you decide whether you agree or disagree with your uncle's claim.

Is your unclecorrect? Why or why not?

Whicharticle is a more trustworthy source? Why?

4. Your Task: You are researching a recent breakthrough in Physics. You discover three articles that cover the same story.

Directions: Look over each of these articles. Identify each article as scholarly, popular, or trade/technical. The articles can be found linked below. Hint: there is one of each type of article

Which one of the three articles is the original article the other two articles are based on? Explain your answer.
Which article is the scholarly, peer-reviewedarticle? Explain your answer.
Which article would be considered a "popular"publication? Explain your answer.
Which article would you consider to be atrade/ technical publication? Explainyour answer.

5. Reflect on the work you did on these hypothetical projects. Why is it important to evaluate information you come across? What are some specific tactics you will use in the future to evaluate information? How might your tactics change based on where you are looking? Provide at least one specific example (either from this project or another instance of evaluating information) in your response.