Another riveting presentation from Ms. Voss showed us the importance of websites and making sure that the site and the information on the site is valid. In my attempt to complete this assignment I spend two to two and a half hours trying to long on to Beta Blogger, which didn’t work out that well, in the beginning. Out of anger and frustration I began to search for my author. Knowing that Google often has some unreliable sources I went straight to the browser to see what I could see. I’m sure that it would be less of a challenge than it seemed. Noticing that a few of the sites were references to research papers and some just connected me to other site that you had to also search in, I decided to try Gale Groups Literary Resource Center. This however was not very successful, so I decide to try my Google search again and I found a site!
This is actually an article that is connected to a web site. The site is Project Muse Scholarly journals online. Essential it is online access to the Muse journals that are also published in print.
Article Website
Author: Rubén Gallo –Princeton University / The Johns Hopkins University Press in collaboration with The Milton S. Eisenhower Library
Audience: Consumers, Professors, Adults, college adults
Scholarship: both the site and article are copy written and there is also a partner ship with JSTOR which is
one of our “reliable sources”
Bias: The tone is more “matter of fact” and is presenting information / NONE
Currency: They have a staff of editors and the Muse is published online and in journals
Links: all fine and up to date
Final Assessment: Yes I would, there are a lot more current articles and they all are valid and scholarly.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/hispanic_review/v074/74.2gallo.html#REF1
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Brittany,
I am sorry you had so much trouble, but am happy you finally made it on. I hope you had some success today finding a new poet. Thanks for your amusing blogging!
Brittany,
I'm sorry you had so much trouble with your blog, but you seem to be doing just fine now.
I'm glad that you didn't choose to evaluate Gale Group, because we would not technically classify it as a website. While it is "mounted" on the web and accessible via the web, it is more than a website--it is a subscription-only database, meaning that we have to pay for it to use it fully. Unfortunately, you went on to choose another database that we do not subscribe to! That is why you only retrieved an excerpt from an article, and not a full article. As I said before, I am not looking for you to evaluate a subscription database. This database contains a collection of articles that have already been edited and published in print form, so we don't necessarily have to ask the same questions of them that we would ask of websites. You did a decent job of evaluating this particular page, but I'd like you to find another true website, not a database, to practice your web evaluation skills.
Let me know if you have questions. I know this may be confusing.
Ms. Voss
p.s. I checked on JSTOR, and it does not contain this article either. If you really wanted to use this article, you should go to another library (like the county library, for example) to obtain the entire article.
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