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Defining the Question
Identifying Resources
Improving a Search
Evaluating Websites
Preventing Plagiarism
Understanding Copyright

  
 

 

 
   
  Evaluating Websites
   
 

5. Authority of the information

What to Watch for Why
Author
If you cannot find the author and the author's affiliation, you cannot verify the author's qualifications (example).
Affiliation of the Author
The author's affiliation may provide an indication of the author's authority (example).

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