<http://www.medicinenet.com/anorexia_nervosa/article.htm>.
Author: Melissa Stoppler
Timeliness: no date is listed
Evidence: several sources are cited throughout the article
Biases: the article does not appear to have any biases
Advertising: there are advertisements found on the page
This is a good source to use for general background research because the information is very useful. However, I will probably not use it as a primary source or cite it in my paper because I could not find the date it was published/ last updated and because advertisements were found on the website.
2 comments:
I kind of have to disagree with the notion that advertisements are clue that a webpage is an unreliable source...
The people who have enough corporate backing to run a web site with no advertisements, are pressured to support that corporation's bias and agenda.
A person who has commercials on a page, probably doesn't make more money off the commercials than is needed just to run the web site.
Of the two - I'd trust the latter to be more sincere in what they're doing.
Not knowing when the source was published is a definite red flag. You never know if this was written five or fifty years ago. It's still great for background though like you said!
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