1.) Ethos means the credibility of the writer or speaker. Ethos is often shown through tone and style of the message and through the way the writer or speaker while referring to different views.
2.) An authority site has ethos. It is a site that can be trusted and can give you what you are looking for. Authoritative sites are not always the first results on google, but if you keep scrolling your almost guaranteed to find an authoritative site.
3.) It is important to have a “gatekeeper” in determining a site’s authority because gatekeepers are credible editors who approve the validity of the facts. If there isn't a gatekeeper, then the facts may be incorrect.
4.) When researching a project, a television news article is not enough information because articles originally written for broadcast may be short and summarized because on-air time is brief and most segments are written as overviews.
5.) The Treehugger.com site is connected to news and radio, it's reputable enough to have an interview with Sheryl Crow and Bill Nye the Science Guy and nationally-known companies are comfortable advertising on the site.
6.) If the sources on a site are questionable, if you can't determine who wrote and/or published the site and if you can't tell if the site is a personal page without gatekeepers, it may not be credible.
B
1.a.)
1.) Personal with biographic data.
2.) Promotional - selling a product.
3.) "Current" - to provide extremely up-to-date information, as for newspapers' sites.
4.) Informational - to share information on a particular topic or hobby.
5.) Advocacy/persuasive - to convert you to particular point of view.
6.) Instructional - to teach a unit or course of study.
7.) Registrational - to register for courses, information, and/or products.
8.) Entertainment.
b.) I most commonly use promotional, entertainment and informational websites because they are the ones that I use on a daily basis, I don't really need to use advocacy, instructional websites etc. on a daily basis. It all depends on what I'm doing that day.
c.) The 5 key evaluating guidelines are currency, coverage, objectivity, accuracy and authority. I think that the currency and accuracy are the most important because the website may not have correct information anymore if the currency is not checked and if there are a lot of grammar mistakes and false information, then it is a dead give away that the website is not a reliable source.
2.a.) 1st site: This site is the homepage of an organization domain. The purpose of this site is to provide an unbiased data clearinghouse and a forum for public discussion based on Dihydrogen Monoxide.
2nd site: This site is the homepage of a commercial domain. The purpose of this site is to kind of self explanatory, it is the Japanese news. It covers news topics such as Politics, sports, business etc.
2.b.) 1st site: Currency - The website is not current, even though on the bottom of the page there is a "last updated" bar, I have done some research and in fact, the most recent information is around 2 years old. Accuracy - There are no grammar or punctuation errors.
Authority - Tom Way is responsible for this page. There are no direct links that relate to Dihydrogen Monoxide and there aren't any clear sources.
Objectivity - This is definitely a biased website. The only thing that the page talks about are the harmful affects of the Dihydrogen Monoxide.
Coverage - The titles and headings are clear, but the navigation within the website is not very clear.
2nd site: Currency - This website does seem to be current since some of the news stories were published just this week and the last update was 11:34 AM today.
Accuracy - There are no grammar or punctuation errors.
Authority - The Yomiuri Shimbun is responsible for this page. There are direct links and the sources coming from the news articles are clear.
Objectivity - The website does not seem to have any biase, but if I was to get into farther detail then some of the articles may be biase.
Coverage - The titles and headings are clear, the website is easy to follow and the navigation is clear.
2.c.) I believe that the first site is unreliable and the second site is reliable.
C.) Bad - http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/sightings.html
~ Does not look professional
~ Cannot find the publisher
~ Unreliable information - octopi have gills, not lungs, so they would not be able to survive outside of water for very long
~ End in .net (network)
Good - http://www.pbs.org/
~ Can find publisher right away
~ Has media resources
~ Ends in .org (Organization)
~ Looks professional
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