Internet Sources

1. Write down the full reference for three possible internet sources for your research:
a. www.organicfoodee.com/ by Ysanne SpevackEditor, OrganicFoodee.com


b. www.organicfoodinfo.net/ by Virginia Louise, a woman who has tasted an organic food and did some research because it found it very tasty as when she was child.


c. www.organicfood.co.uk/ by anonym writer and director but it helps people to know better about food by the UK’s premier organic directory.



2. Choose the one you are most interested in, and explain why you think it is a credible source:

I found that every website has some good and interesting information for my paper and also my daily life. Therefore, I’ll take from all of them to enhance my knowledge.


3. For the source you chose, explain what type of information it contains, and how that information is useful for your project:

For the first website, it is very helpful because it gives more details about the way of farming which very important to understand where our foods come from.
The second is more what to eat and how; it gives recipes and ways to eat organic and also and which is important how to buy it from stores.
The third is more what the benefits are from eating organic. And what is the problem that we can have if we still eat non organic food. Hence, I found as I said before that the three are interesting and important for my subject.

4. Evaluate the objectivity of the source, based on what you have learned from class discussions and readings such as "How to Evaluate Information on the Web".

I think that all the sites are subjective since people who created them have already a bad influence about non organic food, so it’s like advertising organic to show just the good side not if there is a bad side of organic food.

SSK 1212 Evaluating Periodicals Worksheet

The following criteria and questions can help you to judge the value of a source.
Instructions: Use the periodicals you have found on our class topic. Answer the following questions in order to assess the credibility of your chosen source; you may need to do some additional research

First, write the full reference here:

Journal of chemical education by the division of chemical education of the American chemical society, issn 00219534, volume 86, number 3, march 2009.
2. Evaluate Authority: Who is the author of this text? Do they have a degree or other expertise that qualifies them to write on the subject? What else has the author published?

Jenifer K. Bachman and D. Miles
The University of the South

3. Evaluate Affiliation: What institution (company, organization, university, etc.) published this text?

Is it a commercial or non-profit publisher? What else does the institution publish? Could the author's affiliation with this publisher bias their work?
It is an academic journal by the division of chemical education of the American chemical society, The University of the South, Sewanee.

4. Evaluate Currency: When was the text published and/or last updated? Will you use it for current information or for historical context?

It was published in March 2009, and I will use this article for current information since it brings more information about the components of farming foods nowadays.

5. Evaluate Audience: Who is the intended audience (students, educators, the general public, experts) for the text? Is it written for someone with a small or large amount of knowledge on the subject?

It is more specific since there are a lot of scientific words that I didn’t understand. Also, it explains different scientific and complex theories.

6. Evaluate Purpose: What appears to be the purpose of this text? Is it to inform, persuade, entertain, report, or refute?

To explain with details and proofs some cooking food.


7. Evaluate Sources: Where did the author get their information? Is there a bibliography? Are there footnotes? Does the author refer to primary or secondary material?

There is notes at the end of the article where it is cited the bibliography and the sources of some theories; they are 15. also, there is a supporting material which is some websites.


8. Conclusion: Now that you have assessed the source in more detail, do you still think it is useful? Explain why or why not.

Yes, it is very useful for someone who is basically scientist, for me it doesn’t help me a lot since most of the terms and theories hadn’t been understand. Also, it is quite a far from my subject and what I want to inform my audience about because I believe that if you want to inform, students must use a casual terms.

SSK 1212 Evaluating Books Worksheet (non academic)

The following criteria and questions can help you to judge the value of a source.
Instructions: Use the book you have found on our class topic in the Mohammed VI Library. Answer the following questions in order to assess the credibility of your chosen source; you may find the answers by checking through the appropriate parts of the book, or you may need to do some additional research:

1. First, write the full reference here:

My book reference is America’s Food “what you don’t know about what you eat” by Harvey Blatt, ISBN 978-0-262-02652-9.
2. Evaluate Authority: Who is the author of this text? Do they have a degree or other expertise that qualifies them to write on the subject? What else has the author published?

“Harvey Blatt is the author of America's Environmental Report Card: Are We Making the Grade? (MIT Press). He taught geology at the University of Houston and the University of Oklahoma for many years and is now Professor of Geology at the Institute of Earth Sciences at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.” MIT Press. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=22666


3. Evaluate Affiliation: What institution (company, organization, university, etc.) published this book? Is it a commercial or non-profit publisher? What else does the institution publish? Would the author's affiliation with this publisher bias their work?

The MIT press which is Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “The MIT Press is the only university press in the United States whose list is based in science and technology.” However, they published beyond science and engineering. They published “about 200 new books a year and over 40 journals.” “They are a major publishing presence in fields as diverse as architecture, social theory, economics, cognitive science, and computational science, and we have a long-term commitment to both design excellence and the efficient and creative use of new technologies.” their aim is to create books and journals that are “challenging, creative, attractive, and yet affordable to individual readers.”
http://mitpress.mit.edu/mitpress/history/default.asp

4. Evaluate Currency: When was the book published and/or last updated? Will you use it for current information or for historical context?

2008, however this book has a comparison between before the 20th century where agriculture was organic and now where it is made by chemicals.

5. Evaluate Audience: Who is the intended audience (students, educators, the general public, experts) for the book? Is it written for someone with a small or large amount of knowledge on the subject?

It is written for everybody even if the title is America’s food since in all over the world farms use chemicals; therefore, I found the book very reflective what’s going on Morocco’s farms.

6. Evaluate Purpose: What appears to be the purpose for the book? Is it to inform, persuade, entertain, report, or refute?

The book is informing the reader about the food that everybody buys in the supermarket and report some facts and survey to better show the issue.

7. Evaluate Sources: Where did the author get their information? Is there a bibliography? Are there footnotes? Does the author refer to primary or secondary material?

The author took a lot of information from several books and the bibliography has more than 4 pages.

8. Conclusion: Now that you have assessed your book in more detail, do you still think it is useful? Explain why or why not. If you do intend to use it, name the chapters or sections that you think will be most useful for your topic.

The book that I pick from the library as a hunt and help for my project is very helpful and useful even before using and answering those questions. In fact, it is helpful even in my personal life since after reading this book and even while reading it I’ll figure out what I eat specially that the book refer to chemicals and some fertilizers that farmers are using to grow fast the vegetables or more worse to grow chickens. Also, the book shows as where some diseases are since those chemicals can kill people after a period of time.