Workshop on Quality and Authenticity of Web resources

Workshop on Quality and Authenticity of Websources

Hello guys...I am coming with fresh and very interesting idea which is very useful in the 21st century, especially for students who are making use of internet resources. On 19th november at Department of English in Bhavnagar. This blog is about reliability of Internet sources and websites for the students who are researching.

When we were coming to truthfulness of sources than we came to know that students make full faith on internet sources without even bothering to see that they are providing the right information or not.

Turnitin is an American commercial, Internet-based plagiarism detection service. Here this website spread one research paper about how students can evaluate the sources and and for that it also create one rubric to evaluate the websites or sources from which students taking their information. For more information please Click here Turnitin is originally evaluation and plagiarism preventing platform which checks the originality of particular work.

We are living in the 21st century, in the world of technology and Internet Exploration where all research are done under digital platform. So the question is, How much trust and faith should be put on these Web-Resources, they are reliable or not and if they are than what is the quality of their product and information.

Turnitin prevent plagiarism engage students has created one rubric for students to evaluate the sources which is used by students, to check whether it is trustworthy or not and can we use it for academic purposes and for research. The rubric is built on five main criteria... 

• Authority
• Educational Value
• Intent
• Originality
• Quality

Instructor or student who make evaluation grade the marks on 1 to 4 grading scale. Foe SEER one should may know the criteria for each point and than interpret the available sorceces based on it.

• 3.0 - 4.0: highly credible, quality sources
• 2.0 – 3.0: credible sources
• 1.0 – 2.0: questionable sources
• 0.0 – 1.0: unacceptable or inappropriate source

So to mark the quality and authenticity of these work one should take into consideration the following rubrics. Here is one chart about the authenticity of the sources of information...

Evaluation of Websites

1)Cliffsnotes

Critaria	4	3	2	1
Authority 2.5		2.5 - The website provides information with some references without mentioning the place and degree of particular writer.
Educational value 2.5		2.5 This site provide information for students and for study purpuse which helps to understand particular subject.But it's instructional goal is only to provide information without criticism.
Intent 2.5		2.5. Site is well known source of information provides users only information
Originality 3		3 - Site provide some original content and some are authors own view point
Quality 3.3	3.3 - Quality of the content is also good and also provide wide information about the particular subject

Description

So when we do the overall analysis of Cliffsnotes than we all came to know that material provided in this site is can be questionable as well as a credible source.

2) Scribd

Authority - 4

This site is very reputable as well as given information are by experts and scholars.

Educational Value - 3

This site provides information for students whose instructional goal is to make criticism on work of art.

Intent - 2

This site is open for everyone and we can download pdf freely but when it comes to their critical work we can not open the whole article for that we should pay some money which goes down it's intention.

Originality - 3.5

This site offers original content with so many references.

Quality - 4 

Quality is more important than quantity so this site pass the quality test which is highly rich in its content.

3)Bartley.com

Criteria	4	3	2	1
Authenticity- 4	This site is highly regarded. The information provided in it is well referenced with citations and references. Written by scholars and professional in that particular field.
Educational Value- 4	The site's goal is to provide information for students knowledge. And also proves best on instructional goal like creativity and criticism.
Intent- 2.5			The site is very known source but it's intention to provide information is to earn money. We can open some essays and blogs but when we open critical Essay or some creative work then it is unopened
Originality- 4	The information provided in the site is original and trustworthy.
Quality- 3.5		Quality is also good of provided material.

Description

Bartley.com is very regarded source for especially research and writing purposes. The given information in the site is original and reliable. But sometimes the site considered it is business to provide information which only negative point of the site.

To sum up, The session is all about to bring awareness in students to check the source before you make the of use more trustworthy and faithful websites which gives original information, not copy-pasted knowledge. Thanks to Prof. Dr. Dilip Barad Sir for organizing such an informative session for students.