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Evaluating Academic Website Reliability

The document appears to be an assignment asking students to evaluate various websites as academically reliable sources of information. It provides a table with the name of 8 websites or organizations, their internet addresses, descriptions of who or what authored them and their purposes. Students are asked to determine if each source is academically reliable and explain their reasoning in the last column.

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Evaluating Academic Website Reliability

The document appears to be an assignment asking students to evaluate various websites as academically reliable sources of information. It provides a table with the name of 8 websites or organizations, their internet addresses, descriptions of who or what authored them and their purposes. Students are asked to determine if each source is academically reliable and explain their reasoning in the last column.

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Name: __________________________________________ Group: ________________ Mark: ___________________/24

ASSIGNMENT 2 - Evaluate the websites below as academically reliable sources of information.

Name of Internet Address Who/What is the What is the purpose of the organisation Is it academically Why/Why not?
Website/Author author/organisation? or site? reliable?
/Organisation (Yes/No)

1 Wikipedia Anybody can write or edit


the content / Authors
anonymous / Owned by a
not for profit foundation.
Editors check content
meets their own guidelines
and policies

2 us.sensodyne.com Toothpaste brand owned


by Glaxo SmithKline group
of companies

3 www.dentist.net Website for online


shopping of dental
products

4 World Health Home page/About WHO/


Organisation “the directing and
coordinating authority for
health within the United
Nations system”

5 http://www.gdc- “We are the organisation


uk.org/ which regulates dental
professionals in the UK”
(top of homepage)
6 http:// Dental Institute of King’s
www.kcl.ac.uk/ College, London
schools/dentistry/

7 Oman Medical http:// Oman Medical Journal is


Journal website www.omjournal.org published six times a year
by Oman Medical
Specialty Board. It is
distributed free to all
medical doctors and allied
health professionals in
various institutions locally
and internationally.

8 Links to Free www.external.shl.lon Library, University of


Dentistry .ac.uk/res/subjects/ London
Resources on index.php?
University of group=dent
London Dentistry
Gateway

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