http://www.subir.com/cortazar/
Author: Unlisted, - doesnot seem to be associated with a university or other scholarly institution.
Audience: Presumably anyone interested in Cortazar; it provides onlyfactual information in a standard, objective setup
Scholarship: Not particularly high; all information seems all right, but no sources are listed for the biographical data
Bias: The author is neutral. He likes the works of Cortazar, but in providing information about them he isn't biased.
Currency: Cortazar died twenty-two years ago, so his biography isn't changing.
Links: About half of them don't work; some do, but they are mostly links to excerpts of his work. Others are to pages in Spanish.
Verdict: This site isn't particularly good. It is one of the only English Cortazar sites I could find, and although quickly dismissed, represents just about all of the qualities of a page that would make one desire to avoid it for a research paper (despite the initial appearance of validity).
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Rob,
This is a concise and informative summary. Nice work! Be careful, though--there are places where you could have dug a little deeper. For example, if you had traced the page back to its home at www.subir.com, you would have found plenty of biographical information on the author of the page--which wouldn't have made the page any more authoritative, but good to know nonetheless.
You clearly understand the criteria to review before using a website for research. I hope you use it in future endeavors!
Ms. Voss
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