The amount of information online is increasing literally by the minute. This is great news as it makes accessing research materials so much easier. The flipside is that there’s an awful lot of substandard material, if not outright misinformation, that you have to wade through in order to find good-quality resources.
When you’re researching online, you need to know how to separate the wheat from the chaff. Generally speaking, it could be said that before any website can be taken seriously, it should simultaneously deliver with regard to the four qualities of accuracy, authority, objectivity and timeliness. If even one of these aspects is not sufficiently satisfactory, you’re in danger of using unreliable information. Let’s look at these four qualities in more detail.
Accuracy