Module 4: Evaluating the Web

My chosen source is:

1. Surfing Australia

Annotation:

Surfing Australia is an extremely comprehensive website with pages containing information on competitions, surfing news, surfing reports, surf break ratings and much more. Although the website contains all of this information it is mostly presenting information on past, current and future surfing competitions and events. They provide winners tallies and graphs as well as trophy winners. It is written in a journalistic style way however they aren't so fussed about the use of slang as most surfers understand that language. It is well researched and well written and extremely easy to read and pull information from.

TASK:

1. in terms of your own future use, which 'body ' of information (ie. the original 'snapshot' of the site, or your own, annotated, analytical version) would be most useful to refer back to?

I think my own annotation will be more useful to look back on and refer to because it contains my own point of view. This makes it easier to refer to in my work.

2. In term of external users (i.e. if you included this site as a hyperlink or resource on a website) which body of information would best help them judge if the site was useful or of interest to them?

In terms of external users I believe that the original information would be more useful to them. This is because the original piece of writing isn't written with any bias. Where as mine contains bias because of my point of view towards the topic.