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Event
Day
Week
Month
Two Years
Ten Years
Put It All Together
Flow Home
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What About Web Pages?
 Where
do World Wide Web resources fit in the Flow of Information?? Example:
Oil Spill Public Info Center;
International Tankers Owners Pollution
Federation, Ltd.
WWW Resources:
- Audience: General public; children to senior citizens; knowledgeable
layperson; scholars; anyone
- Coverage: Popular topics; personal information; current affairs;
government information; research; scholarly information; fun and games;
and more...
- Written By: Anyone: professional journalists; children; teenagers
(high school students); members of general public; scholars and researchers;
poets and writers of fiction; essayists; college students; advocates and
activists; and more...
- Timeliness: Varies widely: may be very current coverage, very
out-of-date information, or undated.
- Length: Can vary greatly.
- Content: Anything: general discussion; editorial opinion; graphics;
photographs; advertisements; statistical analysis; detailed analysis; fact;
fiction; fraud; and more...
- Slant: Depends: May reflect the editorial bias / slant of the
web page creator; may be objective or neutral; may be geared for academic
or professional audiences; may be unsupported personal opinion, who
knows????
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For more assistance with understanding and evaluating web pages, see
Thinking Critically About World Wide Web Resources.
Also, try your hand at Hoax, Scholarly Research,
Popular Opinion?... You Decide!
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