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Thesis & Research Papers: Website Evaluation Systems

Help for Junior Students doing English III Thesis (including Honors III) : Research, Citation, Plagiarism, Writing, Forming Arguments, Etc.

Other Libraries' Pages on Evaluation, Media/Information Literacy, Fake News etc.

Web Literacy for Student Fact Checkers
eBook by Michael A. Caulfield
Cornell: Evaluating Web Pages
Web Site evaluation resource libguide from Cornell University.
Cornell: Evaluating News Sources
News/Media literacy libguide from Cornell University
Critical Evaluation: Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything
Library Resarch e-Text (SUNY Canton)

TEDTalks

SMELL Test

Source, Motivation, Evidence, Logic, Left-out

Don’t Be Fooled: Use the SMELL Test To Separate Fact from Fiction Online
Source, Motivation, Evidence, Logic, Left-out

CRAAP / TRAAP Test

Currency (Timliness), Reliability, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose

CRAAP Test (PDF)
Currency, Reliability, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose (From California State University, Chico)
Is this source or information good? (CRAAP Test)
CSU Chico, Meriam Library

RADCAB

Relevancy, Appropriateness, Detail, Currency, Authority, Bias

RADCAB
Relevancy, Appropriateness, Detail, Currency, Authority, Bias