Use the P.R.O.V.E.N. Source Evaluation Process to help you determine whether the sources you find are credible and appropriate choices for your particular research purpose. The questions below will help you think critically during the source evaluation process:
Caulfield, Mike. "Four Moves and a Habit." Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers, 2017.
P.R.O.V.E.N. Source Evaluation by Ellen Carey (6/18/18) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
A link or url tells you quite a bit about where the information on the page comes from and who the intended audience is. The last three letters of a url (uniform resource locator) or link will tell you a great deal about who owns a website, who writes the content and what their purpose is.
Top-level domain |
Abbreviation for: |
Who uses it | Url of example website |
.com |
commercial | commercial entities | https://www.amazon.com/ |
.edu |
education | universities and colleges | https://www.berkeley.edu/ |
.gov |
government | U.S. government | https://www.usgs.gov/ |
.net |
network | network infrastructure | https://www.slideshare.net/ |
.org |
organization | nonprofit organizations | https://www.sierraclub.org/ |
.mil |
military | U.S. military | https://www.marines.mil/ |
We will be dividing you into groups to evaluate a specific website on two aspects of PROVEN. Write down your evaluations in the Google Doc linked below and be prepared to share your findings with the class.