EVALUATING INTERNET SOURCES.

Eugenia Lehman



Image Source: 9News.com

October 13^th 2015

EVALUATING INTERENT SOURCES.

The website that I have chosen to review is 9News.com.

 

Part 1: Evaluating and reviewing a website.

This website states clearly the sponsoring author as you can find their logo at the beginning of the page. The website is created by one of the main news channel of the Denver area so they have extensive experience covering news. The information found in the site is appropriate for the purposes of the page. It is backed by advertisement but not in an overwhelming way however every time that the reader chooses to see news clip, he has to endure watching the whole ad without any option to forward it.  The information found in this website is easily verifiable in other online or printed sources. The material found is varied, from news articles that cover the events ins a superficial way just to inform of the basic facts, but also articles about science with described results of academic research , but also opinion pieces. The website is updated daily and the links are relevant and appropriate for the topics. Last, all the material is appropriate for a printed publication

 

Part 2:

Searching the database EBSCO I could find many medical studies and papers about the same subject. The information is different than the one presented on the 9News website because it is written for the medical community and that makes it more difficult to understand by the general population. It is also a very extensive article so it would be very time consuming for the average reader to go through it. The The author is more knowledgeable about the issue but the heavy medical writing style would interest a least wide audience. All the sources quoted come from other works of research:

“ people wear sunscreen with SPF ≥ 15, they will make virtually no vitamin D3” (Holick et al. 1995a; Matsuoka et al. 1988).

 

Works cited :

Dianne Eyvonn Godar,  Stanley James Pope,  William Burgess Grant,  and Michael Francis Holick.

Solar UV Doses of Young Americans and Vitamin D3

U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Rockville, Maryland, USA; 2Sun Systems and Service,

Inc., Oak Park, Michigan, USA; 3Sunlight, Nutrition and Health Research Center, San Francisco, California, USA; 4Boston University

School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA