Reflection on Website Evaluation

I completed the assignment requiring me to evaluate the validity of a website for it's reliablility of content as well as the reliablility of the publisher. As I have been familiar with websites for quite some time and have been using them as part of numerous papers and assignments in my Undergraduate studies as an English Major, I am fairly well acquainted with the process of verifying a site's validity. This assignment was quite thorough and brought to light some issues in that process that I had yet to think of. The verification of all of the links as well as how open the author of the site is with their own personal contact information both were areas that I had not used in validation before. The website I used in the assignment was webenglishteacher.com. This is a website that has been recommended to me by numerous colleagues as a tool for teaching English. In the process of following the guidelines set in the assignment, I have only further solidified my belief in that this is a trustworthy website and that it will work well for me in the future as a teaching tool. Many philosophies, study guides, worksheets, and pieces of general information about curriculum are available here. This is a useful assignment for anyone that is not familiar with the many specific details that go into validating a website for its validity of information, scholarly or otherwise.