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Name: Meshal Alduaig

Healthy Sleep Website Evaluation

The name of the selected website is Healthy Sleep: Understanding the Third of Our Lives We So Often Take for Granted. Its URL is http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/ . This website seeks to educate visitors about: sleep, the importance of sleep, and how to get needed sleep.

Considering that it was created by Harvard Medical School’s Division of Sleep Medicine in collaboration with the WGBH Educational Foundation, this website is mainly meant for scholars. This is because the creators primarily cater for the informational needs of academics. Since the website does not require visitors to input login data, the general public could as well use its content.

On the homepage, the website clearly outlines the three main sleep aspects that it discuses. Underneath these macro issues are underlying smaller matters. Upon clicking, the hyperlinked items readily open and reveal detailed information. Such organization makes the website easy to navigate. Background items and graphics do not distract users; these entities in fact enrich visitors’ experiences. Since the items are relevant to the theme of the website, they psychologically prepare visitors for the experiences ahead. The website does not feature obvious grammar or spelling errors. It does not also have advertisement content from third parties.

Content for this website is created by a team of professionals under the supervision of physicians and researchers at the Division of Sleep Medicine. For this administrative work, the Division has set up an Editorial Board that comprises eight members who are all physicians. The website enumerates the Board members and their respective physical contact addresses. Since these credentials and contact information is provided by a third-party (the Division), the Board members are whom they claim to be. The site is jointly sponsored by the WGBH Educational Foundation and the Harvard Division of Sleep Medicine.

The writers are straightforward about their motives; they clearly explain that their mandate is to educate visitors about sleep, its benefits and ways of acquiring needed sleep. These authors cite sources and recognize persons from whom information for the website has been obtained. The site lists professionals who have been interviewed while collecting information. Given that it seems to have been gathered after 2008, the provided information is rather current. Nevertheless, the website does not seem to have a regular update scheme in place, meaning that outdated data may not be rectified in time.

The content does not suggest bias on the part of the writers. This is because the authors appear to simply relay information from interviewees and sources without altering it. Nevertheless, the sponsors’ bias is apparent; a particular section of the website’s title illustrates this partiality. The “Understanding the Third of Our Lives [Sleep] We so Often Take for Granted” phrase within the title represents this bias. Based on these words, the sponsors would seek to convince visitors that sleep is extremely essential. This bias is however implicit since readers would not see the possible benefits that could accrue to the sponsors if the supplied information is accepted. Considering that visitors would not suffer harm if readers take in the provided information, this bias is not likely to affect the utility of the offered data.

Works Cited

The Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School. “Healthy Sleep: Understanding the Third of Our Lives We so Often Take for Granted.” The Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School, n.d. Web. 22 Oct. 2014