ENG102: A Web Quest about Evaluating Web Sites
If you are like most students, you are relying heavily on resources from the Web for your research. Not all Web resources are
created equal. In fact, there are great variations in the quality of the resources you access. The rule of thumb is "when in
doubt, doubt." When you carefully select your resources, when you understand their strengths and limits, you create better
products.
The Task: You will be working in groups of four to evaluate a group of Web pages on an assigned topic. Each of you will
be examining sites from a different perspective. You will each be responsible for completing an evaluation chart, focusing on
the perspective you assume within your group.
Cloning Sites
Smoking & Tobacco Sites
Human Cloning Foundation http://www.humancloning.org/
Americans for Nonsmokers Rights Foundation
http://www.no-smoke.org/
Americans for Cloning Elvis
http://americansforcloningelvis.bobmeyer99.com/news.html R.J. Reynolds http://www.reynoldsamerican.com/
Scientific American: Cloning
Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
http://www.scientificamerican.com/topic.cfm?id=cloning
http://tobaccofreekids.org
The National Academies
Philip Morris USA
http://www.nap.edu/webcast/webcast_detail.php?webcast_id=249
http://www.philipmorrisusa.com/en/cms/Home/default.aspx
Censorship Sites
Medical Ethics Sites
National Coalition Against Censorship
American Medical Association http://www.ama-
http://www.ncac.org
assn.org/
Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/
American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics
http://www.aslme.org/
American Civil Liberties Union http://www.aclu.org/freespeech/internet-censorship
Quack Watch http://www.quackwatch.org
American Family Association http://action.afa.net/
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
http://www.pcrm.org/
Gambling Sites
National Congress of American Indians
Political Corruption Sites
Judicial Watch http://www.judicialwatch.org/
http://www.ncai.org/
Political Corruption
National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling
http://www.politicalcorruption.co.uk/
http://www.ncalg.org/
Ethisphere Anti-Corruption Resource Center
Institute for the Study of Gambling and Gaming
http://anticorruption.ethisphere.com/
http://www.unr.edu/gaming/
GOPAC http://www.gopac.org/
National Council on Problem Gambling
http://www.gamblingexposed.org/gamblingexposed_708-3891127__008.htm
The Process: Divide your group into the following four specialties to complete the task more efficiently.
1) Accuracy/Authority Specialist; 2) Objectivity/Bias Specialist; 3) Currency Specialist; 4) Coverage/Usability/Design
Specialist