Evaluation & Annotation Practice, Group 2

 

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? 

 This site contains information about immigration and the law making process dealing with immigration.

 

 

 

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

 

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

 

 

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. They seek to improve border security, stop illegal immigration, and to promote immigration levels consistent with national interest. 

 

 

 

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?

 

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?

 

 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 consular experience.  Buhl's career is related to immigration.  Illegal immigrants would take away jobs that the homeless 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 trying to make you think?

 

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.  

 

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

 

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. 

 

 

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?

 

 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.

 

 

 

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