Who What When Where Why

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Who? What? When? Where? Why?

• 5 Ws of Web Site Evaluation

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Who?

• Who wrote the pages and is he/she an expert?
• Is a biography of the author of the site
  included?
• How can you find out more about the author?

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What?

• What does the author say is the purpose of the
  site?
• What else might the author have in mind for the
  site?
• What makes this site easy to use?

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When?

• When was the site created?
• When was the site last updated?

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Where?

• Where does the information come from?
• Where can I look to find out more about the
  producer of the page?

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Why?

• Why is the information useful for my purpose?
• Why should I use this information?
• Why is this page better than another?

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Bibliography

• Slides courtesy of
• Writing and Research on the Computer
• by Kathleen Schrock, Jan Wahlers and Mary Watkins