Find and Evaluate the Author

 

Techniques to locate the author

Here are examples of pages where the author is not clearly named:

Sorting Hat Personality Test

The First Male Pregnancy

Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

Use these techniques to locate authors:

1. If looking on the page doesn't reveal an author's name, look on the Web site.

2. Try truncating the url to see if there are clues about authorship or links to an author on other pages--remove the end of the address back to a significant break ( / ) or the root of the site.

3. If the site provides links to 'about us' or 'contact us,' check there for author information.

4. If the site provides a search engine, enter the name of the article and see if information about the author is retrieved. This may require careful reading.

5. Search a different site. Enter information about the article in search engines like Google and see if any information about the author is retrieved. This may require careful reading.

Interactive MicroModule Tutorial: Author

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