Thank you for doing this exercise.  Below are the questions from the exercise and selected answers.   The answers listed are good, some even great, and would be accepted on the annotated bibliography assignment.  Answers have been somewhat edited for spelling and grammar.

 

1. Content: What types of information does the site contain?  What specific issues does the site address?

 

Group 4: Organization that suggests that the immigration policies should be changed.  Gives people info on what they can do, and what the current immigration policies are.  Has many many different immigration issues listed.

 

 

 

2. Currency: Is the information on the site up to date?  How do you know?

 

Group 2: The information is current because the last update was on March 12, 2008.

 

 

3. Purpose: What is the purpose of FAIR? What are is principles?

 

Group 1: "The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is a national, nonprofit, public-interest, membership organization of concerned citizens who share a common belief that our nation's immigration policies must be reformed to serve the national interest"(FAIR). "True immigration reform, as the overwhelming majority of Americans envisage it, entails establishing a coherent set of national interest principles for immigration policy and then enforcing our laws." (FAIR)

 

 

Group 3: FAIR is the Federation for American Immigration Reform. The purpose of FAIR is to pass immigration laws reforming immigration and putting a limit on how many should be admitted in the United States. The principle of FAIR is to limit the amount of illegal immigration and then limit the amount of immigrants that are actually allowed in the United States. They want to help people become more aware of this problem.

 

 

Group 6: The purpose of this website is to create an immigration policy that is fair and will serve the needs of our country. The website has seven principles; cut the numbers, no amnesty, protect wages and standards of living, major upgrade in interior enforcement, stop special interest asylum abuse, immigration time out, equality under the law.

 

 

4. Reliability & Accuracy: Can you rely on the information on this site?  Why or why not?  Where does the site get its information?  Is there a list of reference?  Are the sources cited?  Is FAIR used by other sources?  What do those other sources say about FAIR?

 

 

Group 1: These sources are reliable because they give you the sources listed at the end of the articles. The sources are trusted magazines, websites, and radio stations. They are used by other sourcse since they are interviewed regularly by MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, in the New York Times, USA Today. The think FAIR is a reliable source and fully trusted.

 

Group 2: FAIR is reliable because it is an organization and its publications and research are used by academics and government officials in preparing new legislation. They get their information from prominent authors, researchers, and federal public polls (U.S. Census).

 

 

5. Authority: Who are some people on the board of directors of FAIR?  Who are the media experts?  What are their credentials?  Do any of them have careers related to immigration?

 

Group 1: Some of the board directors include Nancy Anthony, Sharon Barnes, and Edith Blodgett.  The media experts are Dan Stein, Jack Martin, and various more. Their credentials show that they're well educated men. None of them seem to have worked in immigration but have worked in the economy.

 

Group 2: Nancy Anthony, president of an investment advisory firm. Sharon Barnes who owns and runs a company that restors historic property. Henry Mendelssohn Buhl who is a founder of not-for-profit of Community Employment for the Homeless. Some media experts include Dan Stein, who was previously executive director of the Immigration Reform Law Institute,  and Jack Martin who is a retired U.S.  diplomat with consulat experience.  Buhl's career is realted to immigration.  Illegal immigrants would take away jobs that the honeless could have.

 

 

6. Point of View: Look back to question 3, purpose.  Does FAIR have a biased or un-biased viewpoint?  Is FAIR trying to persuade you to think one way or another?  If so, what is it tryping to make you think?

 

Group 2: FAIR's biased viewpoint would be to come down hard on immigration and illegal immigrants. They want more strict laws made in order to be fair to the United States population.  

 

Group 3: FAIR is a biased organization because it is trying to persuade people to believe that immigration laws should be made trying to stop illegal immigration and try to limit the amount of immigrants coming in to the country.

 

 

7. Ease of use: Is the site easy to navigate?  Could you quickly and easily find what you were looking for?

 

Group 2: The site was easy to navigate but some of the sources were hard to find. For the most part we found everything we were looking for. 

 

Group 6: Yes the website is easy to navigate with side bars and drop down menu. with a few click of a mouse you can find anything you need.

 

 

8. Relevancy: You are probably not actually using this site in your research paper, so you cannot evaluate its relevancy to you thesis.  How could this site be used in a paper on immigration reform?

 

Group 1: This site can be used to give you one view point of the argument and provide good evidence.

 

Group 2: If a paper was to be written on immigration, this source would be helpful if the paper was to write about how immigration is bad for the United States. This could be a good source for an argument essay.

 

Group 3: This website can be used in a paper that is supporting immigration reform. it will help the person who is writing the paper to give evidence and support on an organization that is trying to help reform immigration and the things that is doing to help.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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