Assessing the quality and bias of web-based sources: implications for academic writing  

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Stapleton, Paul

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of English for Academic Purposes (Full Text) vol. 2 no. 3 (2003), page 229–245.
Fulltext: Stapleton_Paul.pdf (272.37KB)

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In recent years, the Internet, or more specifically, the World Wide Web, has become an important source for research information retrieval. However, theWWW, which allows anyone with computer access to upload a web page for public viewing, has a fundamentally different nature than traditional research sources such as a library whose contents receive screening from reviewers, editors, publishers, and librarians. This difference raises questions about whether learners are aware of the quality differences that exist between traditional and netsourced research. Via a quantitative analysis of 163 responses to a questionnaire and a qualitative analysis of the citations in the scripts from 17 L2 learners, it was determined that while initial indicators on the questionnaire pointed to a somewhat informed awareness of these quality issues on the part of the learners, performance on a written assignment displayed a mixed implementation of this knowledge. The findings suggest that academic writing courses need to engender a heightened level of vigilance among student authors of both the power and the perils of Internet research.

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