{"id":394,"date":"2021-11-24T02:34:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T22:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gradmode.com\/?p=394"},"modified":"2022-03-04T20:30:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T16:30:30","slug":"website-credibility-checklist-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gradmode.com\/website-credibility-checklist-for-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Comprehensive Website Credibility Checklist for Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This website credibility checklist for students should be relied upon when writing academic assignments. The quality of references used is often a key factor affecting assignment grade. Hence, you need to pay close attention to the trustworthiness of the websites which you reference in your paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cornerstone of academic writing is to find relevant ideas and concepts put forward by others and build upon them. The aim should be to make inferences and additional contributions of your own. Before you can do that though, you need to be able to determine whether a website is credible enough that you can rely on it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are going to be situations in which you need to use information which you couldn’t find in more reliable sources like peer-reviewed journals. This includes things like needing to use information found only in news outlets, or market analysis websites, or even blogs like this one. It\u2019s a meme that does the rounds quite often, but the view of \u201cI found it on the internet, so it must be true\u201d is sadly a fairly common view that many students seem to have. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The current generation of students aren’t that gullible, having become desensitized to what the internet has to offer. However, we still see many students finding it difficult to judge whether a website has credibility. This is especially when the content they’re looking at isn’t exactly leaning towards one side or another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although we have prepared this credibility checklist for students to use in academic writing specifically, you can also apply these tips in non-educational contexts as well. We suggest that you try to internalize these points as much as possible. With continued use, this should become as a routine part of your mental process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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