Health Promotion/Disease Prevention

Assignment Guidelines:

1. Select a Web site dedicated to your disease or problem
2. Find a peer reviewed journal article related to your disease from the past 3 years.
3. Find a magazine article related to your disease from the past year.
4. Find a newspaper article related to your disease from the past 6 months.

Criteria for Evaluating a Web Page:

• Organization
• Authority
• Accuracy/Objectivity
• Currency
• Scope

Discussion of Web site reliability:

• Wikipedia Entry: John Seigenthaler
• Wikipedia vs. Encyclopaedia Britannica
• Comment from Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia’s founder

Databases:

• Academic Search Premier –Information about this database. View a tutorial
• Health Source- Information about this database. View a tutorial
• Lexis-Nexis - Information about searching this database

Citation Format (Remember you are using a modified APA):

APA (American Psychological Assoc.):An APA citation formats information sheet is available by clicking on the Style Guides link on the Library’s homepage. Also, all the suggested databases provide APA and other citation styles for articles found in those databases. These citations can be e-mailed directly to you. After you select an appropriate article click on the “E-mail” link and then select the appropriate citation style under the “Citation Format” heading. You can also use this information sheet to guide your citation format.