THE SCIENCE MAGAZINE

(https://www.sciencemag.org/)

Name: Rahmasella Yolanda Sitepu  

ID Number:  001134367 

Class: EAP Advanced  

Lecturers: Susannah McCallum 

Date: 25/02/2020  

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Summary of Website – This website has been at the center of important scientific discovery that found in

1880 by Thomas Edison. Nowadays, this website continues to publish original scientific research, reviews,

science-related news, opinions on science policy and wide implications of science and technology.

Academically tests like authority, audience, transparency, objectivity and currency test have conducted to

check whether this website has reliable information to be used as evidence in an academic essay.

Evaluation

Authority – The author for all the articles on Science magazine news website gets the information from the

experts on the field and have been read by several academics in the American Association for the

Advancement of Science.

Audience – The Science Magazine website has content that talks about science. They have more than 3

million readers including student, people that involve in research community, academic administration,

medical student, industries, and scientific funding agencies.

Transparency – The author uses some information and data from experts, they also use several references

to an old article to back up their experimental data, findings and evidence. Less than 7% of articles that

submitted through the websites are accepted for publication so its mean the community of scientist who

work in this website as editors, reviewers and authors are selective and has a highest standard in order to

publish the best articles.

Objectivity – The author presents the information in an article objectively because they are researchers that

comes from universities.

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Currency – The information in this website is up to date. For example, this website has newest information

on how to fight cancer by using CRISP-R.

Recommendation – I would recommend this website for people who are have area of interest on science

and technology. However, you need to subscribe the website to get the access to read some of the articles,

journal and news or has access to one of scientific societies and universities that affiliates to this website.

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