Name: Carlos Per: 6

Evaluating Resources

The internet provides us with lots and LOTS of resources, but they aren’t all credible. How do you know that a website is
credible?

One of the easiest ways to evaluate a source is to look for the logos. Appeals to logic involve facts and numbers which
can easily be proven accurate.

Use the table below as a guide for evaluating sources.

Factors to Least reliable Possibly reliable Most reliable

consider

Type of Unfamiliar website; Personal Published material Official websites, institutional

source websites, comments, Yahoo! News websites sites, academic journals. .gov or
Answers, blogs, forums .edu endings

Author’s Uncredited Educated on topic Expert in the field

background

Date None Outdated Recently revised

published

Sources None Credible sources Citations referencing other well-

cited cited works

Objectivity Clearly biased. No attempt to Sponsored source (For example, Balanced, neutral. If opinionated
address the other side. Relies on an article sponsored by College provides counterclaim. Mainly
ethos and pathos. Board or a university). Some logos.
ethos/logos, little or no pathos

Information you will need to write your Works Cited:

 Title of page (CNN)
 Title of specific article or document (“Ms. Cook Wins Teacher of the Year”)
 Author, if given (Joe Schmoe)
 Date published or copyrighted (if given). Hint: Look at the BOTTOM of the page.
 Date accessed (the day you looked at the page).
 Root URL (www.cnn.com, not www.cnn.com/mscook/teacher-of-the-year/awesome/milliondollaraward.htm)

Use the chart on back to keep track of the sites you visit!

To access the articles and videos we’ve used in class (and the summative assignment if you’ve misplaced it…),
visit Ms. Cook’s website:

www.mscookwhs.weebly.com
Title of website:ProCon.org Title of article: Is college Author: unknown
Education Worth It?
Date published: 9/19/2014 Date accessed:12/3/14 Root URL: http://college-education.procon.org
2:48:07 PM
Information:
The debate of whether a college education is worth it may have begun when the colonists arrived from Europe and
founded "New College" (later renamed Harvard University) in 1636. People who argue that college is worth it contend
that college graduates have higher employment rates, bigger salaries, and more work benefits than high school
graduates. They say college graduates also have better interpersonal skills, live longer, have healthier children, and have
proven their ability to achieve a major milestone.

Title of website: New York Title of article: Author: David Leonhardt

Times Is College Worth It? Clearly,
New Data Say
Date published: May 27 2014 Date accessed:12/4/14 Root URL:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/27/upshot/is-
college-worth-it
Information: The pay gap between college graduates and everyone else reached a record high last year, according to
the new data, which is based on an analysis of Labor Department statistics by the Economic Policy Institute in
Washington. Americans with four-year college degrees made 98 percent more an hour on average in 2013 than people
without a degree. That’s up from 89 percent five years earlier, 85 percent a decade earlier and 64 percent in the early
1980s.

Title of website: Nerd Title of article: 10 Surprising Author: : Alexandra Rice

Reasons to Go to College
Date published: Oct 6 2014 Date accessed:12/4/14 Root URL:
http://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/nerdscholar/2014/10-
surprising-reasons-college/

Information: Americans collectively have more than $1.2 trillion in student loan debt, an amount that may cause
prospective students to wonder whether college is worth the cost. Regardless of debt levels, it’s still statistically more
beneficial to hold a college degree.

Title of website: Nerd Title of article: Author:

Date published: Date accessed: Root URL:

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Date published: Date accessed: Root URL:

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