Com10003 Assignment 1

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Topic of interest – Ebola virus disease (EVD) As the media coverage around the Ebola virus has gone into overdrive I thought it would be a great topic to focus on to assess the credibility and quality of informational and social sources. To demonstrate this I will look at two informational and two social sources and apply the critical evaluation skills from Metzger’s article (Miriam J Metzger. 2007) to evaluate the accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency and coverage of these sources. In addition to this, the plethora of current information available on the topic has provided me with a good opportunity to assess various formats of sources (i.e. videos, statistics, forums, fact sheets, etc.) and evaluate which of these best utilize the learning theories and therefore aid in deeper learning. For my first source I chose a fact sheet by the World Health Organisation (World Health Organisation, 2014), an informational website that I have concluded is a highly reliable source. The World Health Organisation is an agency of the United Nations and arguably the authority on public health. They provide factual, current (last updated September, 2014) and highly comprehensive information to keep the public informed on all public health matters. As this source is deemed a known, reputable organization and I was unable to identify the specific identity of the author I have assumed it was written by someone with the correct credentials and qualifications although I cannot be sure of this, therefore the credibility of the author in question. The fact sheet provides several related links to other useful information on the topic as well as current contact information, and there are no links to anything sponsored. I found this source

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