Evaluation & Annotation Practice, Group 1

 

FAIR: Federation for American Immigration Reform

www.fairus.org

 

 

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Please evaluate the FAIR Web site by answering the questions below.  Answer the questions in complete sentences.  The answers cannot all be found on the front page of the Web site.  You need to click on the links on the left side of the site (Doing Research?, About FAIR, etc) and on the bottom of the site (FAQs, etc).  Answers may be spread out over 2 or more pages of the site.

 

 

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

 It contains information about immigration and their reforms.

 

 

 

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

 The information on this site is up to date because they update the information everytime some new comes up.

 

 

 

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

 "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)

 

 

 

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

 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.

 

 

 

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?

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.

 

 

 

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 trying to make you think?

I believe it's bias because it always brings up the reform to eliminate immigrants. Yes, they try to persuade you in many ways by bringing up their opinions.

 

 

 

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

 Yes, its easy to use because the links are easy to navigate. We found everything with great ease.

 

 

 

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

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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