Evaluating Information Web Sites and Citing Sources: Topic 9

3.	You are responsible for writing a paper on the production of electricity in your state. Which resource is least likely to have biased information:
	CHOOSE ONE ANSWER.
	www.freetheplanet.org The electric company that sets the rates for your electricity The Greenworks Gazette A coal company in your state The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (www.epa.gov)

3. The electronic company that sets the rates would absolutely gave biased information because because they would tell you anything to make them look good so you don't want to ask them about anything relating them or there competitors becaie

7.	Contemporary and up-to-date refer to:
	CHOOSE ONE ANSWER.
	coverage accuracy objectivity currency authority

7. Contemporary and up-to-date refer to currency not accuracy because when something is up-to-date it is current and it doesn't always have to be accurate.

9.	When you are assessing a website's objectivity, which of the following would you not examine?
	CHOOSE ONE ANSWER.
	The intended audience of the website Advertising on the website The currency of hyperlinks on the website The website's sponsoring company or organization Language and images that paint a one-sided picture

9. When assessing a websites objectivity, you would not examine the currency of hyperlinks because they can still have good information. Just because it's a hyperlink doesn't mean that is it a bad website that you need to be redirected to get credible information. They could be other websites that go more in depth on a topic that the first website was just touching on.