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Step Four - URL Addresses

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  1. Understanding the parts of URL (a web address)
  2. How to look up an address you have been given. How to find reliable URL's

Questions to Answer

  1. What can you tell about a web page with this url?
    http://www.pcmag.co.uk

  2. What can you tell about a web page with this url?
    http://www.nasa.gov/newsinfo/index.html

  3. If you found two webpages with information about the human cloning debate
    1. http://www.webprovider.net/~bloggsj/mypage/hobbies/cloning.html
    2. http://www.newyorktimes.com/science/features/cloning.html
    which one is likely to be most reliable? a or b?

  4. Name one source of reliable web addresses.
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Commissioned bySue Colyer , Lincoln University Library. This page was last updated on 22/2/98.