Warm-up activity answers
blog (6): because it may belong to anybody, and it is impossible to be sure that
owners of the blog have enough knowledge to rely on the information
they provide)
Multi-purpose search engine (5): because it may generate all kinds of word matches, even if they are
irrelevant to the topic at hand, and give links to all possible
web-sites, both reliable and unreliable, it can be very time-consuming
to filter the information)
e-encyclopedia (4): because it provides more or less accurate factual data about the
general knowledge of the subject of your interest but usually does not
give many details that might be relevant for your topic)
e-journal (3): JSTOR has mostly academic articles, but some journals include both academic and non-academic articles - you should check the credibility of the authors in that case)
google scholar (2): because it gives scholarly articles written by honored specialists in their fields)
(UIUC) e-library web-site (1): mostly scholarly articles, might be easier to find the articles written by the professors of your university
Task 1 answers
1. rank 5
2. rank 4
3. rank 2
4. rank 3
5. rank 1
