You are allowed to use one website for your paper. This is a good opportunity to locate:
Websites are great to locate information you would not otherwise find in books and journal articles, especially recent news, social movements and statistics. BUT, websites require a lot of fact checking to make sure they're authentic and their information is good. Choose your website wisely!
Anyone can create a website. It's your job to determine if a website is a scholarly resource.
Stop the D.R.A.M.A. around website selection! Use the checklist below as a guide to evaluate websites:
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When evaluating a web resource, analyze the domain name and determine if the creator of the webpage can be trusted.
Domain Name Differences by adstarkel. Used under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
