My reflection

I have attended EIR class for almost four months and it really has been a learning experience for me as I have learnt how to do my research properly and effortlessly. Throughout the whole of EIR cds, the most important lesson that I have attended is the lesson on evaluating on the search engines. I have been taught on how to evaluate the website using the skill access the coverage as I thought that it is really a very important skill that we have to use in order to minimise out time wastage on searching relevant information that we need, especially when it comes to the research topic that I have been doing all along since the start of the CDS. This subject is like a wave where there are ups and downs during the lesson. Being a lazy student, which I admit, I realised that I have been rushing through my portfolio as I didn't pay attention to the lesson. But I managed to finish my portfolio in the end. Up till now I realised that effective internet research is a very important skill whereby we need to use it in our daily lives over at the working world in future. So I really thank my tutor for teaching me so many things to my benefits.

When I attended the lesson on website evaluation, my tutor was teaching us how to evaluate by using these criterias:

1. Identify the purpose of a source
2. Access the coverage
3. Access the authority and reputation
4. Access the currency and maintainance of source
5. Consider the accessibility
6. Evaluate the presentation and arrangement of information
7. Access the navigation capabilities
8. Make comparison with other sources
9. Access the overall quality of the source

So I use access the coverage as the criteria regarding my research topic and apparently it works for me very well as the information that I need for my research topic is relevant for me to research on.