Many people have a hard time deciding which website they can trust to be reliable when writing their paper. By using unreliable sources you could be incorporating and promoting false information in your paper. Reliable information can be found by using cites other than ".com". In most cases those who use .com in their papers have received false information and their paper therefore has false information included in it. Most young writers do not realize the risks involved in receiving information off of the internet to use for their papers and need to be aware of the falsity involved with some websites. To start by telling if an internet source is more reliable than another source you can start by looking at the domain type. For instance a website with the domain type ".com" is based on a commercial business, organization, or company(Evaluating Internet Sources). Whereas, a website with a domain type ".gov" or ".edu" would be based on a nonmilitary government entity and an educational institution (Evaluating Internet Sources). So clearly the sites with ".gov" or ".edu" would be reliable if the site is based on the government or education. Also sites including ".com" could come from anywhere and be written by anyone. Therefore we need to make absolute sure that we are not citing websites that a fourteen year old could have written. Most likely if the website was written by the government or college the information is going to be written by an older, more experienced, person who knows what they are talking about. These are just a few ways to be able to incorporate trustworthy information and be able to support our information with reliable adequate proof.
Here is a video explaining how to find reliable websites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVIG-Nsxi_A
Work Cited
"Evaluating Internet Sources" Taft College Home Page. Wev. 23 Mar. 2011. <http://www.taftcollege.edu/newtc/academic/inco48/sec6-4.htm>
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