Wednesday, December 6, 2006

Website is about Clarice Lispector

Author: This website was written by Rachel Gutierrez. She is a native Spanish speaker and has a masters in philosophy and has spent much time studying poetry as well as writing her own poems.
Audience: The audience is for an English speaking audience, it is guided for high school aged students and older.
Scholarship: The writing is well written but a bit disorganized. It looks as if the time line was copied and pasted from a different website.
Bias: I could not find a bias anywhere on this site.
Currency: I could not find a publishing date or a last updated date which was disappointing. The sites she cited were mainly from the 1980s which at first seemed way out dated but when I realized the Clarice Lispector died in 1977 then that was as current as you could get.
Link: Although there were not many links all the links worked. There were links that gave short biographies of the author and the translator of the site, as well as a home page.
Final Assessment: At first I really liked this site it seemed to have a lot of varied information about the author but the more I examined it the more varied information began to look very disorganized and unprofessional. There was no good lay out and it don’t know how much I trust this random author or her translator. The home page site didn’t look very creditable either. There are parts of the site (quotes etc) that I thought were interesting. I also would like to use the timeline however I could find that on another cite. If there was something that I found only on that site I would probably do some research on what the home page organization is before I used it in research and also check if the timeline was accurate.

1 comment:

Ms. Voss said...

Sasha,

It looks like you've done a great job evaluating this website, but would you please post the website address on your blog so I can check your observations against it? Then I can give you a fuller response.

Thanks,
Ms. Voss