1. Several websites offer advice about evaluating information found on the Internet. Two excellent sites are http://campusgw.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/dj.cgi?section=networked&URL=gateway.html at the Cornell University Library, and http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Library. Compare the two sites. How is their advice for evaluating information from the Web different or similar? Select one of your Web sources and evaluate it based on the advice from one of these sites. Does your source seem authoritative? Why or why not?

2. The website for the History Channel has a large archive of speeches from politicians, entertainers, sports figures, and activists. Look up the website, http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/index.html, and choose a speech for analysis. Try to identify the types of information the speaker used, including any examples of testimony, literal analogies, figurative analogies, brief illustrations, extended illustrations, or statistics.