Evaluating Websites

The internet can be a valuable source for supplementing the information you have gathered from books and periodicals. You can find both scholarly and popular sources on the internet, but it's especially important to inquire about authorship and publication when you're evaluating online resources. If it's unclear who exactly created or published certain works online, look for an About page on the site for more information, or search for exact quotations from the text in Google (using quotation marks) to see if you can find other places where the work has been published.