sooo...after i typed the second one i found the first one...i had "saved it as a draft" and not published..i think they are very very simular....


Web Page on Clarice Lipector

Author:
The author of this website is Rachel Gutierrez a native Spanish speaker who has received a masters degree in philosophy. She has been active in the feminist movement and has studies poetry as well as written her own. I think that she would be knowledgeable enough to be considered creatable. what i liked about the website is that it had a link to her name where they had her biography. The only concern I have is whether or not everything she said was translated correctly.

Audience: Her language is mature but understandable appealing to an audience of high schoolers and older. There are pictures and quotes from books and short stories which makes the website more interesting for all viewers.

Scholarship: There is an time line on the web page which looks like it could have been copied and pasted on to the site. Although this would not be a scholarly thing to do, it seems as though she took it from a scholarly source. I would see if i could find another time line to see if it matched up first though. A lot of the quotes from the books are still in Spanish(Portuguese?) But there are also quotes from her from past interviews which are very interesting.

Bias: There seems to be no Bias, She uses quotes and examples from books and other authors to talk about Clarice but there is nothing saying anything very opinionated.

Currency: I could not find the exact date the the page was published, or last updated. but all the resources that she used were mainly from the 1980's and since the author died in 1977 the information was as current as can be.

Links: There aren't that many links but all of them work. You can find information about the author of the site and go back to the main site. there is also information about one of her stories that you can look at through the link.

Assessment: At first i thought the site was pretty creditable but the more and more i looked at it the more apprehensive i got. When going back to look at the home page it did not look creditable at all, maybe because it seemed different from American web-pages but even to begin with the author was no professor even though she was educated. If there was really unusual information that talked about her impact on Latin America or Latin American customs i would maybe use it but since it looks like its mostly information i could find on a more creatable site i think I'm passing on this one.