Evaluation & Annotation Practice, Group 3

 

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 website is about immigration in America. This website is trying to stop immigration. FAIR is an organization that is trying to pass immigration reforms.

 

 

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

 

The website is up to date. It was updated in March 2008.

 

 

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

 

 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 principles 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.

 

 

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?

 

 This website is reliable and accurate because all the information is up to date. Many people are on the board of directors, so they would have many sources. Many people also use this website, like former senators like Walter D. Huddleson and Alan Simpson.

 

 

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 people on the board of directors are Nancy S. Anthony, Major General Douglas E. Caton, Ret., and John Tanton, M.D.  The media experts are Dan Stein, the president who was executive director of the Immigration Reform Law Institute, Jack Martin, the director of special projects who is a retired U.S. dipolmat, Ira Mehlman, mediqa director who is a professor of journalism, and Bob Dane, press secretary/communications director who worked in the radio broadcasting industry.

 

 

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 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?

 

 The site is easy to navigate because there are tabs on specific things that a person could be looking for. It is quick to find the things and it is very easy to see everything.

 

 

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 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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