Review Writing Assignment Peer Review

Icie Kujawski

ENG-105

10/7/2020

Priscilla Bamba

ADHD review website

Many websites have information on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), some may be true and some may be false. While looking at a website on ADHD, you need to make sure that the information on it is true, so there are a set of criteria while meeting these to know if the website is right. These criteria would authority, objective, currency, and coverage. To know the authority of the website make sure the writer is on the web page, for objective are the goals clearly stated, or is it biased, for currency look at when the web page was updated last, for coverage “Are the links (if any) evaluated and do they complement the documents' theme?” (CCCOnline, 2019) Meeting these criteria will help you know if that website is true or not. The National Institution of Mental Health (NIMH), is a web page that talks about all mental illnesses and disorders, and do meet all of these needed criteria.

For authority they have the lead director of the whole Mental Institution of Mental Health organization, it gives his contact information. The web page gives a broad plan of what they are planning to achieve in the next five years. Plus, it also gives information on the people working there, so they know who the information is coming from. The lead director, Joshua A. Gordon has the credentials for the job, the web page states that “Dr. Gordon pursued a combined M.D.-Ph.D. degree at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Medical school coursework in psychiatry and neuroscience convinced him that the greatest need and greatest promise, for biomedical science was in these areas.” (National Institution of Mental Health, 2019). Since the website is overlooked by a professional, that gives their degree and contact information, it is more likely to be true.

For objective, their goals are clearly stated and they are biased towards anything. Their goal is to tell people the truth about ADHD and how to deal with the disorder. They have all the needed information to tell if you have ADHD, they also explain what each part of ADHD is and a few different types of ADHD and what are more common in young children and say that if the child does these things does not mean that the child has ADHD. They say how a child may be able to receive a diagnose. “For a person to receive a diagnosis of ADHD, the symptoms of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity must be chronic or long-lasting, impair the person’s functioning, and cause the person to fall behind typical development for his or her age.” (National Institution of Mental Health, 2019)

To know how current a website is you will normally go to the very bottom of that webpage, where it will say the last time it was revised and edited, which for NIMH is 2019. This will help prove how accurate the site is because new information is coming out and the information we thought was true was actually false, so the more recent it has been revised the more current and true it will be. The links on this web page are current and not expired, proving even more that this site is a good place to gather information on ADHD.

The coverage of a web page is to know what the page offers and does the link it gives complimented it or not. The links on the NIMH web page of ADHD gives links that relate to the topic at hand, and the links are to where they got their information from. Also if there are images, which there is not any but if there was, does it related to the topic at hand. The last thing to look for when finding how good coverage would be is there any citied information from a scientist or another web page that is reliable. On this website, they do have citied information and the website they have received it from is reliable, since they have contact information that is easily found.

Overall, this webpage does a good job of meeting the criteria needed to inform the general public on ADHD. They have the authority to talk about this, proven by the writers’ degree, they know what they are talking about. The web page is not biased in any way that would make someone believe that ADHD is a bad or rare thing to have. The web page is also current with the new information coming out, proven by the last time it was revived.

Reference Page

National Institution of Mental Health, 2019, Retrieved from

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-adhd/index.shtml

Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages, 2019, Retrieved from

https://ccconline.libguides.com/c.php