Here come our last blog assignment --- Do you often take what is on the Internet as truth without thinking much about it? If yes, why? If no, why? Discuss this in your own words.
For me, I will answer yes.
Welcome to the Internet. As I hope my analogy makes clear, there is an extremely wide variety of material on the Internet, ranging in its accuracy, reliability, and value. Unlike most traditional information media (books, magazines, organizational documents), no one has to approve the content before it is made public. Information is everywhere on the Internet, existing in large quantities and continuously being created and revised. This information exists in a large variety of kinds (facts, opinions, stories, statistics)and is created for many purposes (to inform, to persuade, to sell, to present a viewpoint, and to create or change an attitude or belief). For each of these various kinds and purposes, information exists on many levels of quality or reliability. It ranges from very good to very bad and includes every shade in between.
The first stage of evaluating your sources takes place before you do any searching. Take a minute to ask yourself what exactly you are looking for. There is the purpose of your research to get new ideas, to find either factual or reasoned support for a position, to survey opinion, or something else? The answer will be depend in INTERNET! Once you decide on this, you will be directly screen sources by testing them against your research goal. For an example, you are writing a research paper, and if you are looking for both facts and well-argued opinions to support or challenge a position, you will know which sources can be quickly passed by and which deserve a second look, simply by asking whether each source appears to offer facts.
Thats why, with so many sources to choose from in a typical search in internet, there is no reason to settle for unreliable material.
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