DOCUMENT ANALYSIS ACTIVITY
Evaluating Information from Internet Sources
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This information appears on the website of the Corn Refiners Association. The questions below ask you to consider the guidelines for evaluating Internet sources.
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Given the association’s name and the product being discussed, what potential bias might exist on the part of the authors of this document?
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What main point are the authors making in this passage? How do they use words with negative and positive connotations (like “hype” and “natural”) to try to persuade readers of their point of view?
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If you were considering using this source in a document you were writing, what information would you want to discover about the site and the organization that publishes it? How would you locate the information you needed?