Criteria for evaluating blogs...

Evaluating Blogs: Who is the blogger? Is the content worthy to use in your research paper? Which criteria should you be using to evaluate blogs you would like to be referencing in your research papers. Well, a quick search on Google brings up a wide range of approaches to evaluating blogs.
The following sites offer criteria and approaches for evaluating blog content.


Evaluating blogs as research sources: BGSU offers a section on Blogs on their Information Literacy site (see the lower part of the page)
http://libguides.bgsu.edu/content.php?pid=54229&sid=405279

Blog Evaluation Assessment; 21st Century Information Fluency
http://wizard.imsa.edu/rkitp/assessment/v1n5/blog_evaluation_assessment_v1n5.html

Way | Science, Remixed.
Criteria suitable for impact metrics - moving beyond papers
http://ways.org/en/blogs/2009/jun/21/criteria_for_impact_metrics

Blog Rubric by Marta Valle:
detailed rubric on how one school teacher evaluates student blogs
http://rampup.21classes.com/archive/2008/09/20/blog-rubric.htm

Evaluating Blogs as Research Sources: Questions to consider
http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/evaluatingblogs.html
Published by Springfield Township High School virtual Library

Blog Readability: what level of writing?
smog formula estimating the years of education needed to understand a piece of writing
http://www.harrymclaughlin.com/SMOG.htm

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