tudents and professionals that obtained from other domains.
alike are turning to the However, it is important to note
Internet to perform that many educational
research for work and school, institutions allow students to
handle investments , etc.. In publish pages under the .edu
recent years, many people have domain and that information may
begun to believe that everything not be vetted by the institution.
contained in the Internet is
fact, but this is obviously not There are millions of internet
so. The Internet is an amazingly pages and some have been around a
broad resource for research, but long time. Checking for a
unless a user knows how to look publication date is essential in
for signs of reliability, the ensuring that information is up
information gathered during to date. Research for this
Internet research may not be article alone led to pages
accurate or of the highest published as long ago as 1996. A
quality available. publication or update date is
also a sign of a professional
Reliability can be judged at a site that regards itself as a
high level by investigating the reliable source for information.
domain name. There are no However, it must be kept in mind
restrictions on who may apply for that simply because information
a .com, .net, or .org domain. is recent, it is not necessarily
However, the .edu and .gov accurate.
domains are restricted to
government agencies and Site design can give clues to
educational institutions. reliability, as can the writing
Therefore, information gathered style of the articles. A badly
from these sites can be designed site with broken images
considered more reliable that or unprofessional design may not
be the best source of sources for the material, quotes
information. Similarly, a site from professionals in the field,
with poor grammar, spelling or and footnotes for quoted sources.
syntax must also be questioned.
Sites do experience technical Finally, information about and
difficulties, though, and this is contact information for the
something that must be taken into author is the strongest indicator
account when assessing a site for of reliability available. An
reliability. author willing to take credit for
their work and to invite
Sourcing is a strong indicator of correspondence is someone who is
reliability. With the advent of confident in the quality of their
keyword article marketing, more information. Additionally,
and more articles are being contact information allows a
written to attract search researcher to ask additional
engines. Some of these articles questions of the author that may
are certainly reliable, but many not have been covered in the
are written by people with no original article.
expertise in the subject matter.
A quality article will contain
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