When using the World Wide Web as a source for your research, you may want to look closely at the makeup of the pages you reference in order to establish the relevance and/or validity of the information presented therein.

• OWL: Online Writing Lab. Here you'll find a helpful checklist for scrutinizing online sources. You can also use these questions to help you perform a rhetorical analysis of a webpage's content and presentation. Don't forget to consult Jessie Moore's Tips for Using Search Engines on the World Wide Web.
  
  
• Evaluating Information Found on the Internet by Elizabeth E. Kirk includes not only a thorough discussion on evaluating web pages, but it also provides information about copyright and reproduction rights of web materials.
  
  
• Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages published online by Cornell University's Library provides a concise list of questions and evaluation criteria that will help you understand more about the accuracy and authority of the information presented on the web.
  
  
• Internet Detective, a free online tutorial (though it requires registration in order to keep track of your "scores") "is an interactive, online tutorial which provides an introduction to the issues of information quality on the Internet and teaches the skills required to evaluate critically the quality of an Internet resource."
  
  
• For a thorough list of links to guidelines on evaluating web sources, see the reference page on Choosing and Evaluating Internet Sources from Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources by Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger.
  
  
• The Wolfgram Memorial Library at Widener University has posted a superb online book by Jan Alexander & Marsha Ann Tate on Evaluating Web Sources, with links to a rhetorical analysis of a News Web Page, a detailed Checklist for Evaluating an Informational Web Page, and even Questions to Ask about a Personal Web Page. Students enrolled in CWP courses through PWR may wish to consult the Checklist for an Advocacy Web Page. Students conducting an analysis of the visual rhetoric of Business or Commerce might read through Questions to Ask About a Business/Marketing Web Page.