It's one thing to find a webpage on a specific plant. It's a trickier one to determine if the webpage is useful for your purposes.
This page provides some helpful strategies and questions you can use to evaluate the webpages you find.
Remember: you will need to use these strategies to do your evaluation write-up!
The Source and Beyond the Source
Ask yourself the following questions about the source, and your experience with the source.
The Source
- What does it say / what is the main point?
- Where was it published / posted?
- When was it published / posted?
- Who is the author / creator?
- Why does it exist?
- How does it incorporate evidence?
Beyond the Source
- When was it changed?
- Where did you access it?
- What other information can you find about this topic?
- Who's missing from the conversation?
- Why do you need this information?
- How did the information find you? How did you react?
The Source + Beyond the Source Evaluation Framework by DePaul University Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Created by Firouzeh Rismiller, Holly Cerney, Susan Shultz, Grace Spiewak, and Sveta Stoytcheva.
Sample Source and Beyond the Source Answers
The Source + Beyond the Source Evaluation Framework by DePaul University Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Created by Firouzeh Rismiller, Holly Cerney, Susan Shultz, Grace Spiewak, and Sveta Stoytcheva.