The article title is, "Do Fast Food Restaurants Contribute to Obesity?"
http://www.nber.org/bah/2009no1/w14721.html
http://www.nber.org/
This article does not have an author that is listed or a date that it was published. This will hurt it's score for authority. The authority level does increase drastically when you look at the affiliation that the article is published with. The National Bureau of Economic Research is a very reliable source. The dates of the studies within this article are also up to date which helps me rest a sure that the article is current. I would rate this a 7 for authority. I would also rate it an 8 for accuracy because of the amount of research within the article. This article has a few flaws when it comes to accuracy but when you look at the whole picture of the article you know that it is accurate. The currency of this article could be questioned but if you read into it you will notice that the stats are up to date. I will give this an 8 as well for the currency do to the information with the text. Overall this is a good article and I would certainly use it.
I feel that this article will help with my blog because it gives the data that I need to look at when it comes to students and fast food. This article helps me visualize the amount of influence distance to a fast food restaurant will impact peoples lives.
As you give me the information for your sources, please make sure you give me the name of the website as a whole. In this case, it was The National Bureau of Economic Research.
ReplyDeleteAs you examined credibility, I'm glad you looked at the internal dates of the source when you could not find a clear date of publication. That was a good strategy to use. My one question about credibility is where you say there flaws in accuracy. Are you saying that the source didn't check out on all the CRAAP accuracy statements well, or do you mean that you found statements within the article that are inaccurate? And, if that's what you mean, how did you establish that the facts were not accurate? You don't have to answer these questions, but I ask them to point out that I got somewhat confused. Be careful with the terminology that you use in your credibility section.
Your statement of usefulness is right on target. You're keeping your research goals in mind, so keep up the good work there.
There are a few ways that you can tweak the summary. First, make sure you give clearer context. Your sentence about the significance of the distance from a school to a fast food restaurant was unclear, so I'm not sure readers would understand the full context for the facts. You'd also need to be clear that .10 and .25 refers to miles.
Second, you miss out on some major points of the original article. Your summary doesn't mention the fact that studies were also done exploring the relationship between weight gain in pregnant women and the proximity of those women to fast food restaurants. Also, your article contains a few hypotheses that attempt to clarify the research findings. Those hypotheses should be summarized.
Finally, guard against putting your own opinion into a summary. The article did not guess why women are more prone than men to be affected by a nearby fast food restaurant. Putting that information into a summary is like putting words into another author's mouth. Instead, save those types of observations for the response section, which is where they will fit nicely.