Reflective blogging: CRITICAL READING

Good morning guys!

Did you read my post about evaluating on line source? I hope so because today I'm going to apply my reflections and my 4W to a Website I noticed surfing the Web thanks to Google scholar...my new discoveries are really useful! Indeed, I needed some information about e-learning and reading this abstract I realised that this article focuses on interesting topics, such as new systems used in education involving both formal and informal learning (WHY it was written). In the introductory page, I found not only the abstract but also the authors (WHO wrote it), the issue date (WHEN it was published) and I could look at the complete URL (WHAT the domain is). Thanks to this infomation, I realised that this article was authoritative and reliable because it was rather recent (19 the September 2006), the authors were linked to the University of Boston (among them there was a professor mentioned in other researches,too) and it was copyrighted. At this point, I decided to read it in full and I noticed that it was really well-structured and well-written using informal and academic language(WHAT style is used). All this evaluations didn't take me a lot of time and were really useful for my research..this is fantastic! I sometimes did it in an 'unconscious' way but now I am aware that I MUST do it all the times to be sure about the results of my researches. In conclusion,....I love my 4W!

Elisabetta

P.S. If you are interested in this article about e-learning I shared it on del.icio.us, too.