In this day and age, we have access to an endless amount of information at our fingertips. While the Internet has a large amount of resources available for us to see, not everything we read online is trustworthy. In class today, we looked at a variety of different websites and determined whether or not they were reliable sources. My group was given a link to the Sierra Club Home Page, which is a non profit organization. Many of the articles or posts on the website did not have clear resources or references cited. Additionally, the appearance of the website was disorganized and had a lot of advertisements. The website appears to be very political and it seems like the creators are aiming to have as many people join and spread their movement. While the organization seemed to be supportive of the outdoors as well as science, the articles were clearly biased and did not have a reliable authors. Another group showed us the website for the Science Journal, which seemed much more trustworthy. The articles on Science had peer-reviewed articles and had references cited throughout the website. It is always important to examine sources on the website before using them to find facts because anyone can create a website and post things for the whole world to see.
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The sentence starting with
The sentence starting with "the articles on science had peer-review articles" seems a bit choppy. You could make the sentence flow more by splitting up the sentence into two longer sentences and taking out the 'and'. For example, "the articles on science seemed to be trust-worthy as they had peer-reviewed articles throughout the website" "Additionally, the website had multiple references to back up the information given". Other than that, sounds great!
First Person
The paragraph is well written and structured logically, yet one aspect that could use improving is reducing the amount of unneeded words and avoiding using first person. This will improve the clarity and flow of your paragraph.